{"id":"CVE-2015-1804","details":"The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:45:11.518964Z","published":"2015-03-20T14:59:03Z","related":["MGASA-2015-0113","SUSE-RU-2015:2393-1","SUSE-RU-2016:0031-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0674-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0702-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10299-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00074.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73279"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}