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CVE-2001-0955
Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of…
High7.2EPSS 0.45%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- 3663 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 3657 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20011207 Crashing X (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20011208 Re: Crashing X (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.xfree86.org/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- xfree86-xterm-title-bo(7683) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- xfree86-konqueror-bo(7673) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20010922 XFree86 DOS / Buffer overflow local and remote. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEVx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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