66462 : FreeType Demo Applications Crafted Font File Handling Multiple Overflows
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-07-14

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-2527" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.4.0 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1024266
CVE ID: 2010-2527 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 40822 40823 41171 41864 47676 48951
Related OSVDB ID: 66463 66464 66465 66466 66467 66468
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2-demos.git/commit/?id=b995299b73ba4cd259f221f500d4e63095508bec
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049605.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00020.html
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30054
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-09.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614557
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-2527
Mail List Post: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127912955808467&w=2
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?30054
Other Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
http://www.swiecki.net/security.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2010:0577 RHSA-2010:0578

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-08-20 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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