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Bug#232378: xfree86: XFree86 local expoitable buffer overflow (SECURITY)



On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:39:42PM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Package: xfree86
> Severity: serious
> 
> See
> http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
> and existing exploit in
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/353493/2004-02-09/2004-02-15/0
> 
> the patch is available from
> ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/fixes/fontfile.diff

Thanks for the report.

FYI, I have been in touch with the Debian Security Team and folks from
other distribution vendors for several days now regarding this issue.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     I'm not going to waste my precious
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     flash memory with Perl when I can
branden@debian.org                 |     do so much more with it.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Joey Hess

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