Bug 1191082 (CVE-2014-9660)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9660 freetype: missing ENDCHAR NULL pointer dereference in the _bdf_parse_glyphs()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mkasik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	freetype 2.5.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-03-18 07:40:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1191099, 1197737, 1197738, 1197739, 1197740
Bug Blocks:	1191102

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-10 12:50:37 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9660 to the following issue:

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not
properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified
other impact via a crafted BDF font.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=188
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=af8346172a7b573715134f7a51e6c5c60fa7f2ab

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-10 12:55:53 UTC

Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1191099]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-02-19 18:01:14 UTC

freetype-2.5.3-15.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-02-19 22:38:28 UTC

Upstream bug is:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43660

Issue was fixed upstream in 2.5.4.

A NULL pointer dereference issue, which can cause application using freetype to crash if specially-crafted BDF font is loaded.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-02-20 08:30:44 UTC

freetype-2.5.0-9.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-17 17:58:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0696 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html