Bug 1444904 (CVE-2017-7858)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7858 freetype: out-of-bounds write related to the TT_Get_MM_Var and sfnt_init_face functions
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	behdad, bmcclain, cfergeau, dblechte, eedri, erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, fonts-bugs, kevin, lsurette, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mkasik, rbalakri, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, sardella, sherold, srevivo, ykaul, ylavi
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Bug Depends On:	1444915, 1444916, 1444917
Bug Blocks:	1444919

Description Adam Mariš 2017-04-24 14:12:43 UTC

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-07 has an out-of-bounds write related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

Bug report:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738

Upstream patch:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-04-24 14:29:13 UTC

Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1444917]


Created mingw-freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1444915]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1444916]

Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2017-04-28 16:05:45 UTC

This is the same case as in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444898#c2, I can not reproduce the issue with any freetype version which we currently support in Fedora.