CVE-2008-0006
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 5.1%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in (1) X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1, and (2) the libfont and libXfont libraries on some platforms including Sun Solaris, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PCF font with a large difference between the last col and first col values in the PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS table.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 5.1% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0019)
- Published
- January 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0019 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sun / solaris libfont
- sun / solaris libxfont
- x.org / xserver
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204362
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01543321
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN88935101/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-001043.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-January/031918.html(Patch)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28273(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28500(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28532(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28535(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28536(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28540(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28542(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28544(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28550(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28571(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28592(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28621(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28718
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28843
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28885
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28941
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29139
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29622
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29707
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32545
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-09.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-05.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019232
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103192-1(Patch)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201230-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-038.htm
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-077.htm
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203220(US Government Resource)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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