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ID CVE-2004-0083
Summary Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.1:*:errata:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.1:*:errata:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 10.0 (as of 11-10-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
COMPLETE COMPLETE COMPLETE
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
oval via4
  • accepted 2007-04-25T19:52:47.083-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Jay Beale
      organization Bastille Linux
    • name Matt Busby
      organization The MITRE Corporation
    • name Thomas R. Jones
      organization Maitreya Security
    description Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:806
    status accepted
    submitted 2004-03-20T12:00:00.000-04:00
    title Red Hat XFree86 Buffer Overflow in ReadFontAlias
    version 38
  • accepted 2007-04-25T19:52:57.643-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Jay Beale
      organization Bastille Linux
    • name Matt Busby
      organization The MITRE Corporation
    • name Matt Busby
      organization The MITRE Corporation
    • name Thomas R. Jones
      organization Maitreya Security
    description Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:830
    status accepted
    submitted 2004-02-20T12:00:00.000-04:00
    title XFree86 Buffer Overflow in dirfile
    version 37
  • accepted 2013-04-29T04:20:41.055-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Aharon Chernin
      organization SCAP.com, LLC
    • name Dragos Prisaca
      organization G2, Inc.
    definition_extensions
    • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782
    • comment CentOS Linux 3.x
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651
    description Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9612
    status accepted
    submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
    title Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.
    version 29
redhat via4
advisories
  • rhsa
    id RHSA-2004:059
  • rhsa
    id RHSA-2004:060
  • rhsa
    id RHSA-2004:061
rpms
  • XFree86-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-100dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-75dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-Mesa-libGL-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-Xnest-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-Xvfb-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-base-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-devel-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-doc-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-font-utils-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-libs-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-libs-data-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-syriac-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-tools-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-truetype-fonts-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-twm-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-xauth-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-xdm-0:4.3.0-55.EL
  • XFree86-xfs-0:4.3.0-55.EL
refmap via4
bid 9636
bugtraq
  • 20040210 iDEFENSESecurityAdvisory02.10.04: XFree86FontInformationFileBufferOverflow
  • 20040211 XFree86 vulnerability exploit
cert-vn VU#820006
conectiva CLA-2004:821
confirm http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes
debian DSA-443
fedora FLSA:2314
gentoo GLSA-200402-02
mandrake MDKSA-2004:012
misc http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72
slackware SSA:2004-043
sunalert 57768
suse SuSE-SA:2004:006
xf xfree86-fontalias-bo(15130)
Last major update 11-10-2017 - 01:29
Published 03-03-2004 - 05:00
Last modified 11-10-2017 - 01:29
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