Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5199

Title: X Libxfont Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5199.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Aug 18, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5199: A single byte overflow in catalogue.c in X.Org libXfont 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact.

Impacted Vendors

x.org 1

x 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327854 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=5bf703700ee4a5d6eae20da07cb7a29369667aef https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327854 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=5bf703700ee4a5d6eae20da07cb7a29369667aef

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns