CVE-2001-0955 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2001-0955

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

xfree86 project

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Affected Software

x11r6
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3

Timeline

Official Publish: February 2nd, 2002
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.