FreeType 2 Font File Processing Errors Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024266 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1024266
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jul 30 2010
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Impact:
Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 2.4.0 and prior versions
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Description:
Several vulnerabilities were reported in FreeType 2. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create a specially crafted font file that, when loaded by the target application, will trigger a buffer overflow or other memory management or memory corruption error and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target application.
An invalid memory management error in the FreeType font engine can cause code execution [CVE-2010-2498].
An integer overflow in the FreeType font engine can cause code execution [CVE-2010-2500].
Buffer overflows in the FreeType font engine can cause code execution [CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2519].
Buffer overflows in the FreeType demo applications can cause code execution [CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541].
Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team reported several of these vulnerabilities. Marek Kasik reported one of the demo application vulnerabilities.
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Impact:
A remote user can create a file that, when loaded by the target application, will execute arbitrary code on the target system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a source code fix.
[Editor's note: All of the vulnerabilities except for CVE-2010-2541 are corrected in 2.4.1.]
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Vendor URL: www.freetype.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, Boundary error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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