CVE-2008-0006

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.

Affected products

Sun Solaris Libfont: all versions
Sun Solaris Libxfont: all versions
X.Org Xserver: through 1.4

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28273
http://secunia.com/advisories/28500
http://secunia.com/advisories/28532

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