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CVE-2013-4396
Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 4.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers memory-allocation failure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1610 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1426 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1614 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-2784 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-1990-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 62892 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20131008 Fwd: X.Org security advisory: CVE-2013-4396: Use after free in Xserver handling of ImageText requests (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014561 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [xorg-announce] 20131008 X.Org security advisory: CVE-2013-4396: Use after free in Xserver handling of ImageText requests (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2013-4275 (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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