CVE-2013-4396 (GCVE-0-2013-4396)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-10-10 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 16:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
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