SUSE CVE-2012-5670

The bdfparseglyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash via vectors related to BDF fonts and an ENCODING field with a negative value...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201402-16

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201402-16 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : freetype2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:0165-1)

BNC795826, CVE-2012-5668.patch bdf Fix Savannah bug 37905. - src/bdf/bdflib.c bdfparsestart: Reset propssize' to zero in case of allocation error; this value gets used in a loop in - BNC795826, CVE-2012-5669.patch bdf Fix Savannah bug 37906. - src/bdf/bdflib.c bdfparseglyphs: Use correct array...

CVE-2012-5670

Summary (CVE-2012-5670): FreeType before 2.4.11 is vulnerable due to an error in the _bdf_parse_glyphs function and an ENCODING field with a negative value when processing BDF fonts. This can lead to an out-of-bounds write and crash (denial of service), with potential for broader impact described...

freetype

New freetype packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/freetype-2.4.11-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes several security bugs that could...

[USN-1686-1] FreeType vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1686-1 January 14, 2013 freetype vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: ...

[BSA-078] Security Update for freetype

I uploaded new packages for freetype which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2012-5668: NULL Pointer Dereference in bdffreefont. CVE-2012-5669: Out-of-bounds read in bdfparseglyphs. CVE-2012-5670: Out-of-bounds write in bdfparseglyphs. For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems...