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Unscored USN-2211-1 3 CVEs

libxfont vulnerabilities

Published May 14, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font
metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause
libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain
privileges. (CVE-2014-0209)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled X Font
Server replies. A malicious font server could return specially-crafted data
that could cause libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10
and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0210, CVE-2014-0211)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libxfont 1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-0209

    Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.…

    libxfont libxfont Debian Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-0210

    Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to exec…

    libxfont Debian
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-0211

    Multiple integer overflows in the (1) fs_get_reply, (2) fs_alloc_glyphs, and (3) fs_read_extent_info functions in X.Org…

    libxfont Debian

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0209
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0210
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0211