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CVE-2005-0577
Format string vulnerability in DNA MKBold-MKItalic 0.06_1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted BDF…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Format string vulnerability in DNA MKBold-MKItalic 0.06_1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted BDF font files.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 14398 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/mkbold-mkitalic/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/32d4f0f1-85c3-11d9-b6dc-0007e900f747.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0578 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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