Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.891126
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1126-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libxfont' package(s) announced via the DLA-1126-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libxfont' package(s) announced via the DLA-1126-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: It was discovered that there two vulnerabilities the library providing font selection and rasterisation, libxfont: CVE-2017-13720 If a pattern contained a '?' character any character in the string is skipped even if it was a '0'. The rest of the matching then read invalid memory. CVE-2017-13722 A malformed PCF file could cause the library to make reads from random heap memory that was behind the `strings` buffer, leading to an application crash or a information leak. For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in libxfont version 1:1.4.5-5+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libxfont packages. Affected Software/OS: 'libxfont' package(s) on Debian 7. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 3.6 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-13720 Debian Security Information: DSA-3995 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3995 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-08 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-13722
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