CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
89.9%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0577
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and
manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs
efficiently. These packages provide both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font
engines.
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font engine
processed font files. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with
an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to
crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running the application. (CVE-2010-2500)
Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the FreeType demo applications.
If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with a demo application, it
could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2010-2527,
CVE-2010-2541)
Red Hat would like to thank Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team for
the discovery of the CVE-2010-2500 and CVE-2010-2527 issues.
Note: All of the issues in this erratum only affect the FreeType 2 font
engine.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted
(log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-August/079082.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-August/079083.html
Affected packages:
freetype
freetype-demos
freetype-devel
freetype-utils
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0577
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 3 | i386 | freetype | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-2.1.4-15.el3.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | freetype-devel | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-devel-2.1.4-15.el3.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | freetype-demos | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-demos-2.1.4-15.el3.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | freetype-utils | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-utils-2.1.4-15.el3.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | freetype | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-2.1.4-15.el3.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | freetype | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-2.1.4-15.el3.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | freetype-devel | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-devel-2.1.4-15.el3.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | freetype-demos | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-demos-2.1.4-15.el3.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | freetype-utils | < 2.1.4-15.el3 | freetype-utils-2.1.4-15.el3.x86_64.rpm |