CVE-2007-4990 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-4990 at MITRE

Description

The swap_char2b function in X.Org X Font Server (xfs) before 1.0.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) QueryXBitmaps and (2) QueryXExtents protocol requests with crafted size values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 308066 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:054, published Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:07:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:38 2023