CVE-2014-0211: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) fs_get_reply, (2) fs_alloc_glyphs, and (3) fs_read_extent_info functions 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 reply, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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.