CVE-2001-0955

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.

• http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100776624224549&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100784290015880&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100118958310463&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663Vendor Advisory
• http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2
• http://www.xfree86.org/security/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683
• http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100776624224549&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100784290015880&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100118958310463&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663Vendor Advisory
• http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2
• http://www.xfree86.org/security/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683

Published

Sep 22, 2001

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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