X Font Service Detection

info Nessus Plugin ID 26971

Synopsis

An X font service is listening on the remote host.

Description

The remote service is an X Window Font Service (xfs) daemon, which serves font files to clients.

Solution

Limit incoming traffic to this port if desired or disable the service as the use of server-supplied fonts is currently deprecated.

See Also

https://www.x.org/docs/FSProtocol/fsproto.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Font_Server

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 26971

File Name: xfs_detect.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: remote

Published: 10/12/2007

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Asset Inventory: true

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Reference Information

IAVA: 0001-A-0626