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Unscored RHSA-2014:0018 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: libXfont security update

Published Sep 15, 2024 · Updated Jun 26, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::client libXfont 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::client libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation libXfont 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation libXfont-devel 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server libXfont 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server libXfont-devel 0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::client libXfont 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::client libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::client libXfont-devel 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::computenode libXfont 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::computenode libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::computenode libXfont-devel 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::server libXfont 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::server libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::server libXfont-devel 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::workstation libXfont 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::workstation libXfont-debuginfo 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5
Red Hat · RHEL 6 enterprise_linux:6::workstation libXfont-devel 0:1.4.5-3.el6_5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2013-6462 EPSS 10%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 a…

    libxfont Debian

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048044
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2014/rhsa-2014_0018.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6462
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6462
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6462
  • article
    http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-January/002389.html