Robert Swiecki reported an integer overflow flaw 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 code in question goes back to the version of freetype in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and can only be triggered when MALLOC_CHECK_=3 is set. This issue has been given the name CVE-2010-2500. Upstream bug reports: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?30263 Upstream commit that fixes the issue: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6305b869d86ff415a33576df6d43729673c66eee 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 3 Via RHSA-2010:0577 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.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