CVE-2010-4819

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The ProcRenderAddGlyphs function in the Render extension (render/render.c) in X.Org xserver 1.7.7 and earlier allows local users to read arbitrary memory and possibly cause a denial of service (server crash) via unspecified vectors related to an "input sanitization flaw."

Affected products

X.Org-Xserver: through 1.7.7; 1.7, 1.7.6.902, 1.7.7-rc2

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/X_advisory2.asc
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/render/render.c?id=5725849a1b427cd4a72b84e57f211edb35838718
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1026149
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/5
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28801
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/X_advisory2.asc
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/render/render.c?id=5725849a1b427cd4a72b84e57f211edb35838718
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html

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