CVE-2015-1802

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative or (2) large property count in a BDF font file.

Affected products

X.Org libXfont2: through 1.4.8; 1.5.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73277

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