Out-of-Bounds Array Access Vulnerability in X Fontserver for Truetype fonts (xfstt) 1.4

CVE-2003-0581 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

X Fontserver for Truetype fonts (xfstt) 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) FS_QueryXExtents8 or (2) FS_QueryXBitmaps8 packet, and possibly other types of packets, with a large num_ranges value, which causes an out-of-bounds array access.

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