CVE-2014-0210: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow remote font servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted xfs protocol reply to the (1) _fs_recv_conn_setup, (2) fs_read_open_font, (3) fs_read_query_info, (4) fs_read_extent_info, (5) fs_read_glyphs, (6) fs_read_list, or (7) fs_read_list_info function.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.10 only; version 14.04 only
• X Libxfont: up to and including 1.4.7; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.5 only; version 1.2.6 only; version 1.2.7 only; …

Published 2014-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.