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HistoryMay 01, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-1784-1 : freetype - integer overflows

2009-05-0100:00:00
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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.044

Percentile

92.5%

Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer overflows in FreeType, a library to process and access font files, resulting in heap- or stack-based buffer overflows leading to application crashes or the execution of arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1784. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(38656);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0946");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1784");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1784-1 : freetype - integer overflows");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer overflows in FreeType, a
library to process and access font files, resulting in heap- or
stack-based buffer overflows leading to application crashes or the
execution of arbitrary code via a crafted font file."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1784"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the freetype packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-5+etch4.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.7-2+lenny1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cwe_id(189);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freetype");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/04/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/05/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"freetype2-demos", reference:"2.2.1-5+etch4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libfreetype6", reference:"2.2.1-5+etch4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libfreetype6-dev", reference:"2.2.1-5+etch4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"freetype2-demos", reference:"2.3.7-2+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"libfreetype6", reference:"2.3.7-2+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"libfreetype6-dev", reference:"2.3.7-2+lenny1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.044

Percentile

92.5%