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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0083

Original release date:03/03/2004

Last revised:08/21/2010

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS v2 Base Score:10.0 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#820006

Name: VU#820006

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/820006

External Source: BID

Name: 9636

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9636

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040210 iDEFENSESecurityAdvisory02.10.04: XFree86FontInformationFileBufferOverflow

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107644835523678&w=2

External Source: XF