Bug 621980 (CVE-2010-2806)

Summary: CVE-2010-2806 FreeType: Heap-based buffer overflow by processing FontType42 fonts with negative length of SFNT strings (FT bug #30656)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mkasik
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Bug Depends On: 638139, 638140, 638141, 638142, 638143, 638522, 638838, 638839, 806284    
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Local copy of the PoC from Robert Swiecki
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Upstream Savannah bug #30656 patch none

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-06 16:51:33 UTC 
An array index error, leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found
in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed FontType42 font
files with negative length of certain special font name table strings.
An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted font file
(which bypasses a size check and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow).
Such file, when opened, would cause an application linked against libfreetype to crash, or, possibly execute arbitrary code.

Upstream bug report:
  [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30656
 
Public reproducer:
  [2] http://alt.swiecki.net/j/f/sigsegv29.ttf
 
Upstream changeset:
  [3] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c06da1ad34663da7b6fc39b030dc3ae185b96557
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-06 16:54:31 UTC 
Created attachment 437208 [details]
Local copy of the PoC from Robert Swiecki
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-06 16:56:12 UTC 
Created attachment 437209 [details]
Upstream Savannah bug #30656 patch
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-06 16:57:36 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.
Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-10 12:10:04 UTC 
The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-2806 has been assigned to this.
Comment 12 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-29 09:06:09 UTC 
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 638522]
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-04 17:12:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0736 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0736.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-04 17:54:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0737 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0737.html
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 18:58:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0864 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0864.html