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CVE-2026-56002 A heap bufferflow in pcfReadFont() due to missing glyph bounds checking in libXfont2 before 2.0.8  allows attackers…

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
libXfont2 2.0 earliest → < 2.0.8 2.0.8

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