Robert Swiecki reported a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in freetype with how it processes certain fonts. This could cause applications linked against freetype to crash or, possibly, lead to the execution of arbitrary code if an attacker were able to get a victim to load a malicious font file. The affected code is not present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (freetype 2.1.4). This issue has been given the name CVE-2010-2519. Upstream bug reports: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?30306 Upstream commits that fix the issue: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=5ef20c8c1d4de12a84b50ba497c2a358c90ec44b http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b2ea64bcc6c385a8e8318f9c759450a07df58b6d Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Robert Święcki of the Google Security Team for the discovery of this issue.
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 613299]
Upstream has released 2.4.0 to correct this issue: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2010:0578 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html