CVE-ID

CVE-2001-0955

• CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20020131 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (20020131)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(4) Baker, Cole, Frech, Green
NOOP(2) Foat, Wall
Comments (Legacy)
Proposed (Legacy)
20020131
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