Bug 800587 (CVE-2012-1130)

Summary: CVE-2012-1130 freetype: heap buffer over-read in PCF parser pcf_get_properties() (#35603)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: behdad, fonts-bugs, jrusnack, kevin, mkasik
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Bug Depends On: 806266, 806267, 806268, 806269, 806270, 806271, 889398    
Bug Blocks: 800639    

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-06 18:48:53 UTC 
An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way FreeType font rendering engine retrieved properties information from Portable Compiled Format (PCF) bitmap font files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted PCF font file, which once opened in an application linked against FreeType would lead to that application crash.

Upstream bug report:
[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?35603

Upstream patch:
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c776fc17bfeaa607405fc96620e9445e7a0965c3

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2012-03-06 20:49:53 UTC 
Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/16
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-14 17:19:56 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16.
Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2012-03-15 16:37:55 UTC 
The problem here is in pcf_get_properties(), which does not ensure that a string read form PCF font file is properly NUL terminated before passing it to strdup. This may possibly cause program crash.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-10 19:58:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0467 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0467.html