Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Published: 2013-10-10
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 2.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2784-1 xorg-server security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-4275 Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1990-1 X.Org X server vulnerabilities
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
X X.org X11
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:45:12.730Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4396

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-10-10T10:55:06.473

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-4396

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4396 - Bugzilla

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