Advisories » MGASA-2014-0020

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Jan 2014
Modification date: 21 Jan 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2013-6462

Description

Updated libxfont packages fix security vulnerability:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the processing of Glyph Bitmap
Distribution fonts (BDF) could result in the execution of arbitrary code
(CVE-2013-6462).
                

References

• http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-January/002389.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2838
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12237
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6462

SRPMS

3/core

• libxfont-1.4.5-3.1.mga3