Alpine: libxfont: security update to 1.4.6-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401097

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2013-6462)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401097

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2013

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6462

BID: 64694

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