{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2014-01-07T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libXfont: stack-based buffer overflow flaw when parsing Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts",
    "id" : "1048044",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048044"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-121",
  "details" : [ "Stack-based buffer overflow in the bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont 1.1 through 1.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a character name in a BDF font file." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank X.Org security team for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2014-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0018",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "libXfont-0:1.2.2-1.0.5.el5_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0018",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "libXfont-0:1.4.5-3.el6_5"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "libXfont",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6462\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6462\nhttp://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-January/002389.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2013-6462",
  "csaw" : false
}