6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
0.174 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.0%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0889
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. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 provide
both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font engines. The freetype packages for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 provide only the FreeType 2 font engine.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font
rendering engine processed certain TrueType GX fonts. If a user loaded a
specially-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-2010-3855)
Note: This issue only affects the FreeType 2 font engine.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue. 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-November/079339.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-November/079340.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-November/079345.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-November/079346.html
Affected packages:
freetype
freetype-demos
freetype-devel
freetype-utils
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0889
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i386 | freetype | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | freetype-demos | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | freetype-devel | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | freetype | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | freetype | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | freetype-demos | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | freetype-devel | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | x86_64 | freetype-devel | < 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1 | freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | freetype | < 2.1.9-17.el4_8.1 | freetype-2.1.9-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | freetype-demos | < 2.1.9-17.el4_8.1 | freetype-demos-2.1.9-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm |