CVE-2015-1804

Name	CVE-2015-1804
Description	The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-183-1, DSA-3194-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libxfont (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	1:1.5.1-1+deb8u2	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	1:2.0.1-3+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	1:2.0.3-1	fixed
	bullseye	1:2.0.4-1	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	1:2.0.6-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
libxfont	source	squeeze	1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1	DLA-183-1
libxfont	source	wheezy	1:1.4.5-5	DSA-3194-1
libxfont	source	(unstable)	1:1.5.1-1

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-March/002550.html