Vulnerability Details CVE-2014-0209
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FontFileAddEntry and (2) lexAlias functions in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 might allow local users to gain privileges by adding a directory with a large fonts.dir or fonts.alias file to the font path, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to metadata.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 31.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
Products affected by CVE-2014-0209
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.8
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.2.9
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:1.4.99
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04