CVE-2013-1981

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2013-1981 · Published 15/06/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-1981 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting libx11 (x).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libx11 x	`= 1.5.0≤ 1.5.99.901`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XQueryFont, (2) _XF86BigfontQueryFont, (3) XListFontsWithInfo, (4) XGetMotionEvents, (5) XListHosts, (6) XGetModifierMapping, (7) XGetPointerMapping, (8) XGetKeyboardMapping, (9) XGetWindowProperty, (10) XGetImage, (11) LoadColornameDB, (12) XrmGetFileDatabase, (13) _XimParseStringFile, or (14) TransFileName functions.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106781.html
debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2693 · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
securityfocus.com/bid/60120
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1854-1 · Vendor Advisory
x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23 · Vendor Advisory

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