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CVE-2015-1804 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libxfont), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 5.
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.