Bug 625626 (CVE-2010-2805)

Summary: CVE-2010-2805 freetype: FT_Stream_EnterFrame() does not properly validate certain position values
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jlieskov, mjc, mkasik, sparks
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Bug Depends On: 638522, 638838, 638839    
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-08-20 00:29:44 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2805 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-2805
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2805
Assigned: 20100722
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20100806 Re: CVE Request -- FreeType -- Memory corruption flaw by processing certain LWFN fonts + three more
Reference: URL: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111955616772&w=2
Reference: CONFIRM: http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.2
Reference: CONFIRM: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=45a3c76b547511fa9d97aca34b150a0663257375
Reference: CONFIRM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.2/NEWS/view
Reference: CONFIRM: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
Reference: CONFIRM: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30644
Reference: UBUNTU:USN-972-1
Reference: URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-972-1
Reference: BID:42285
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42285
Reference: SECUNIA:40816
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/40816
Reference: SECUNIA:40982
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/40982
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2010-2018
Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2018
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2010-2106
Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2106

The FT_Stream_EnterFrame function in base/ftstream.c in FreeType
before 2.4.2 does not properly validate certain position values, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-27 06:31:23 UTC 
Created attachment 449832 [details]
Public PoC
Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-27 13:16:14 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the freetype package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the mingw32-freetype package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 12 and 13 and as present within EPEL-5
repository.
Comment 9 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-27 17:16:33 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of freetype as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-29 09:06:29 UTC 
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 638522]
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 18:58:13 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