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CVE-2001-0955

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2001-09-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Xfree86 Project X11R6

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References