Name
CVE-2026-56002
Description
A heap bufferflow in pcfReadFont() due to missing glyph bounds checking in libXfont2 before 2.0.8 allows attackers authenticated as X client to execute code within the X server.
CWEs
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
-
Analysis#
Vulnerability Ratings#
8.5
CVSSv31
8.8
CVSSv31
NaN
other
Others affected components#
Resolved with patches#
libxfont (yocto:scarthgap)
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
pcfread: validate bitmap sizes and offsets against per-glyph
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
CVE-2026-56002
libxfont2 (yocto:scarthgap)
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
pcfread: validate bitmap sizes and offsets against per-glyph
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
CVE-2026-56002