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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-013

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-013
Posted Jan 21, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-013 - Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2013-6462
SHA-256 | b0af7255ba31dc33177e93d56e6db8a83b8031f8aed0fa39e9a98030107af6e4

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-013

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:013
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : libxfont
Date : January 21, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in libxfont:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in
bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute
arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file
(CVE-2013-6462).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6462
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
21ddd5d021a3721894d8e91769e665e1 mes5/i586/libxfont1-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
7279ba4ef6c459df5526e8fd47f8b546 mes5/i586/libxfont1-devel-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
e57c2ac9880cacb6a8c5555de20242a8 mes5/i586/libxfont1-static-devel-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
5c5414a45107d891f13b3694b853bb24 mes5/SRPMS/libxfont-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm

Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
7bcfca76e624e2fa6856425fe341759b mes5/x86_64/lib64xfont1-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
9da93243f5c64b958a49716d014598f6 mes5/x86_64/lib64xfont1-devel-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
9246fa2da72cfdc0632b71d133dedb12 mes5/x86_64/lib64xfont1-static-devel-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
5c5414a45107d891f13b3694b853bb24 mes5/SRPMS/libxfont-1.3.3-1.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
8987c8fe13c56daf372157d7af320fa6 mbs1/x86_64/lib64xfont1-1.4.5-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
5e0a2e81d72fdc0acb4d9cd6ebc102c2 mbs1/x86_64/lib64xfont1-devel-1.4.5-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
aeae88972fbbc4f41cd1540c05506661 mbs1/x86_64/lib64xfont1-static-devel-1.4.5-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
f3e0098239e7e631e0419d302598dacd mbs1/SRPMS/libxfont-1.4.5-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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