Bug 890094 (CVE-2012-5670) - CVE-2012-5670 freetype: Out-of-bounds write in _bdf_parse_glyphs() (#37907)
Summary: CVE-2012-5670 freetype: Out-of-bounds write in _bdf_parse_glyphs() (#37907)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-5670
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 890078
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-25 04:25 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 08:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-01-03 05:20:53 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-12-25 04:25:02 UTC 
An out-of heap-based buffer write flaw was found in the way FreeType font rendering engine performed parsing of glyph information and relevant bitmaps for glyph bitmap distribution format (BDF). 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, or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.

Upstream bug:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37907 
Patch: 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7f2e4f4f553f6836be7683f66226afac3fa979b8

External References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/511
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-03 05:20:41 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of freetype as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-03 05:20:53 UTC 
This issue did not affect the version of freetype as shipped with Fedora 16 and Fedora 17.
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