ubuntu · CVE-2004-0083

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Priority: medium Published: 2004-03-03 05:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:33:37 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2004-0083 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xorg), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.

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