CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
96.1%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0635-01
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, which provides the
core functionality for the Linux graphical desktop.
An integer overflow flaw in the way the XFree86 server processes PCF files
was discovered. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to
cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code
with root privileges on the XFree86 server. (CVE-2006-3467)
Users of XFree86 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-August/075302.html
Affected packages:
XFree86
XFree86-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-Xnest
XFree86-Xvfb
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts
XFree86-devel
XFree86-doc
XFree86-libs
XFree86-tools
XFree86-twm
XFree86-xdm
XFree86-xf86cfg
XFree86-xfs