An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way the anti-aliasing renderer of the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain TrueType fonts. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted TrueType 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/?35604 Upstream patch: [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=fcbc82e69e7b114b0db75e955896107d611898e6 Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.
Added CVE as per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/16
This issue does seem to affect the versions of the freetype package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. -- This issue did NOT affect the version of the freetype package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15. -- This issue affects the version of the freetype package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16.
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