CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-0955

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before version 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters.

Risk Assessment

The organization may be exposed to attacks that lead to denial of service and potential unauthorized privilege escalation by attackers.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update XFree86 to version 4.2.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS