CVE-2013-4396 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-4396

Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the...

Vulnerability 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.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

x.org x11
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.1, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.9.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

Timeline

Official Publish: October 10th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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