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Permalink CVE-2026-59679
9.2 CRITICAL
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 1 week, 4 days ago Activity log
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fs_read_glyphs() heap OOB read/write via encoding array index mismatch in libXfont2

fs_read_glyphs() in the libXfont2 font-server client (src/fc/fserve.c) indexes the per-character encoding[] array using num_chars from the FS_QueryXBitmaps16 reply, but that array was allocated with a size derived from num_extents in the separate FS_QueryXExtents16 reply. The two CARD32 fields are never cross-checked. A malicious or compromised font server can send a small num_extents (e.g. 1) in the extents reply, then a large num_chars (e.g. 100000) in the bitmaps reply. This causes attacker-controlled out-of-bounds heap read and writes.

Affected products

libXfont2
  • <2.0.3-12.el9_8.3
  • <2.0.3-2.el8_10.3
  • <2.0.6-5.el10_2.3
  • =<2.0.8
libXfont2-2
  • <2.0.3-150000.3.6.1
  • <2.0.7-3.1
  • <2.0.3-3.6.1
  • <2.0.7-160000.5.1
libXfont2-devel
  • <2.0.6-5.el10_2.3
  • <2.0.3-150000.3.6.1
  • <2.0.7-3.1
  • <2.0.7-160000.5.1
  • <2.0.3-12.el9_8.3
  • <2.0.3-2.el8_10.3
libXfont2-2-32bit
  • <2.0.7-3.1
libXfont2-devel-32bit
  • <2.0.7-3.1