Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1802

Title: X Libxfont RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1802.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 20, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1802: The bdfReadProperties function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) negative or (2) large property count in a BDF font file.

Impacted Vendors

x 1

x.org 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73277 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1 http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0113.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152497.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152838.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00032.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00005.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1708.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3194 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:145 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73277 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031935 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2536-1 http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2015-03-17/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-21

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-1802 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 20, 2015 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:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.