Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2015-1803
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.5
EPSS
4.90%
Original Filing — NVD Description
The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly handle character bitmaps it cannot read, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BDF font file.