Bug 800597 (CVE-2012-1138)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1138 freetype: heap OOB read in the MIRP instruction implementation in TTF BCI (#35646)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	behdad, fonts-bugs, jrusnack, kevin, mkasik
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	806270, 806271, 889398
Bug Blocks:	800639

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-03-06 18:55:15 UTC

An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way TrueType bytecode / opcode interpreter of FreeType font rendering engine executed the 'Move Indirect Relative Point' (MIRP) instruction. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted 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/?35646

Upstream patch:
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a33c013fe2dc6e65de2879682201d9c155292349

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 20:56:01 UTC

Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/16

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2012-03-14 17:27:57 UTC

This flaw is in the TrueType bytecode interpreter (BCI) implementation.  BCI is not enabled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 freetype packages (it was disabled by default upstream because of the patent concerns).  BCI support is now enabled by default in upstream versions 2.4 and later, as relevant patents expired: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect freetype packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, as they do not enable TrueType bytecode interpreter.