AZL-101733

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Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-101733.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-101733
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  • CVE-2026-44950
Published
2026-09-10T09:17:02Z
Modified
2026-09-17T14:15:24Z
Summary
CVE-2026-44950 affecting package libXfont2 2.0.8-1
Details

fs_read_glyphs() in the libXfont2 font-server client (src/fc/fserve.c) copies each glyph's bitmap into a single buffer. Existing checks validates only that the source slice (position, length) lies within the source bitmap buffer. It does not check whether the running destination cursor has exceeded the allocation.

A malicious font server can send overlapping source offsets -- for example 1000 glyphs each referencing {position:0, length:64} with nbytes=64. Each individual source range passes the existing validation, but the cumulative writes total 64000 bytes into a 64-byte destination buffer. This is a heap buffer overflow with attacker-controlled content.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libXfont2

Package

Name
libXfont2
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libXfont2

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
2.0.8-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-101733.json"