cve/2013/CVE-2013-6462.md

CVE-2013-6462

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html

Github

• https://github.com/Mohamad-Alhamwi/SAST_With_SRE
• https://github.com/almkuznetsov/sast-labs