Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 22, 2001· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2001-0955

Description

Buffer overflow in fbglyph.c in XFree86 before 4.2.0, related to glyph clipping for large origins, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via a large number of characters, possibly through the web page search form of KDE Konqueror or from an xterm command with a long title.

Affected products

Xorg/X11r63 versions
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/3657nvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/3663nvdVendor Advisory
cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/fb/fbglyph.cnvd
marc.infonvd
marc.infonvd
marc.infonvd
www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.htmlnvd
www.xfree86.org/security/nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7673nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7683nvd

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