USN-2211-1

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain privileges. (CVE-2014-0209)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled X Font Server replies. A malicious font server could return specially-crafted data that could cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0210, CVE-2014-0211)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxfont

Package

Name: libxfont
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxfont@1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.4.6-1

1:1.4.6-1ubuntu1

1:1.4.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxfont-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxfont1",
            "binary_version": "1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}