CVE-2007-5199

Publication date 18 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

A single byte overflow in catalogue.c in X.Org libXfont 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxfont 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxfont

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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