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HistoryAug 16, 2011 - 1:02 p.m.

freetype security update

2011-08-1613:02:42
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9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.9%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1161

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.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType library handled
malformed font files compressed using UNIX compress. If a user loaded a
specially-crafted compressed 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-2011-2895)

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/2011-August/079852.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/079853.html

Affected packages:
freetype
freetype-demos
freetype-devel
freetype-utils

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1161

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.9%