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CVE-2007-5199

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A single byte overflow in catalogue.c in X.Org libXfont 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact.

Affected products

• X.Org libXfont2: 1.3.1

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327854
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=5bf703700ee4a5d6eae20da07cb7a29369667aef
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327854
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=5bf703700ee4a5d6eae20da07cb7a29369667aef

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