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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2253-1 (fontforge)

🗓️ 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2011 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2253-1 fontforg

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_2253_1.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2253-1 (fontforge)
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2011 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# or at your option, GNU General Public License version 3,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in FontForge,
a font editor. When processed a crafted Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF)
FontForge could crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user running FontForge.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.20080429-1+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), testing distribution (wheezy),
and unstable distribution (sid) are not affected by this problem.

We recommend that you upgrade your fontforge packages.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to fontforge
announced via advisory DSA 2253-1.";

tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202253-1";


if(description)
{
 script_id(69960);
 script_version("$Revision: 6613 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:08:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-08-03 04:36:20 +0200 (Wed, 03 Aug 2011)");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4259");
 script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 2253-1 (fontforge)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2011 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"fontforge", ver:"0.0.20080429-1+lenny2", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"fontforge-doc", ver:"0.0.20080429-1+lenny2", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"python-fontforge", ver:"0.0.20080429-1+lenny2", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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07 Jul 2017 00:00Current
0.4Low risk
Vulners AI Score0.4
EPSS0.23143
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