Description
Sean Larsson of iDefense Labs discovered that the MISC-XC extension of
Xorg did not correctly verify the size of allocated memory. An
authenticated user could send a specially crafted X11 request and
execute arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-1003)
Greg MacManus of iDefense Labs discovered that the BDF font handling
code in Xorg and FreeType did not correctly verify the size of allocated
memory. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font, a
remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
(CVE-2007-1351, CVE-2007-1352)