Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0083

Title: XFree86 ReadFontAlias buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-0083

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Mar 03, 2004
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
21.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0083: Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0084 and CVE-2004-0106.

Impacted Vendors

X
xfree86_project 1
X
x.org 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000821 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107644835523678&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107653324115914&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110979666528890&w=2 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200402-02.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57768-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/820006 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:012 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_06_xf86.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-059.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-060.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-061.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9636 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.405053 http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15130 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A806 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A830 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9612 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000821 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107644835523678&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107653324115914&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110979666528890&w=2 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200402-02.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57768-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/820006 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:012 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_06_xf86.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-059.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-060.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-061.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9636 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.405053 http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15130 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A806 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A830 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9612
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0083 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23682
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.