CVE-2007-4990 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2007-4990 Interim 1 5 2023-12-09T02:13:02Z current 2021-05-30T12:40:10Z 2023-12-09T02:13:02Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2007-4990 The swap_char2b function in X.Org X Font Server (xfs) before 1.0.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) QueryXBitmaps and (2) QueryXExtents protocol requests with crafted size values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/T4JTT6DZNXG3W6I5I2ES5VXXCKEVHA7P/#T4JTT6DZNXG3W6I5I2ES5VXXCKEVHA7P E-Mail link for SUSE-SA:2007:054 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings The swap_char2b function in X.Org X Font Server (xfs) before 1.0.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) QueryXBitmaps and (2) QueryXExtents protocol requests with crafted size values that specify an arbitrary number of bytes to be swapped on the heap, which triggers heap corruption. CVE-2007-4990 important 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P