CVE-2013-1981 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1981?

CVE-2013-1981 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Jun 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the (1) XQueryFont, (2) _XF86BigfontQueryFont, (3) XListFontsWithInfo, (4) XGetMotionEvents, (5) XListHosts, (6) XGetModifierMapping, (7) XGetPointerMapping, (8) XGetKeyboardMapping, (9) XGetWindowProperty, (10) XGetImage, (11) LoadColornameDB, (12) XrmGetFileDatabase, (13) _XimParseStringFile, or (14) TransFileName functions.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1981?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, X Libx11.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1981?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-1981 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1981 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1981, GHSA-h27q-wm75-844h.