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HistoryApr 10, 2015 - 11:06 a.m.

Security update for libXfont (important)

2015-04-1011:06:04
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LibXFont was updated to fix security problems.

Following security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2015-1802: The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties
    defined in a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries
    for each property based on that count. It never checked to see if that
    count was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the
    size
    of the structures being allocated, and could thus allocate the wrong
    buffer size, leading to out of bounds writes.

  • CVE-2015-1803: If the bdf parser failed to parse the data for the bitmap
    for any character, it would proceed with an invalid pointer to the
    bitmap data and later crash when trying to read the bitmap from that
    pointer.

  • CVE-2015-1804: The bdf parser read metrics values as 32-bit integers,
    but stored them into 16-bit integers. Overflows could occur in various
    operations leading to out-of-bounds memory access.