An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way Type1 font loader of FreeType font rendering engine performed parsing of certain Type1 font dictionary entries. 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/?35606 Upstream patch: [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=58cbc465d2ccd904dee755cff791fbb3a866646d 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 affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the freetype package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 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