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TITLE:
XFree86 PCF Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21446

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21446/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
XFree86 4.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4870/
XFree86 4.4.x
http://secunia.com/product/3510/
XFree86 4.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/1131/
XFree86 4.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3011/
XFree86 4.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3012/
XFree86 4.6.x
http://secunia.com/product/11386/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in XFree86, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to integer overflows in the PCF font
parser and can be exploited to crash the X server and potentially
execute arbitrary code.

This is related to:
SA20100

SOLUTION:
Do not parse untrusted PCF font files.

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20100:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20100/

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