Vulnerability in Xfree86 Project X11r6
CVE-2001-0955
Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (39.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 39th percentile — 39.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Xfree86 Project X11r6 — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.xfree86.org/security/
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683 (vdb-entry)
- cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)