Security Advisory SA25350 - FreeType TTF Font Parsing Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA25350

FreeType TTF Font Parsing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA25350

Release Date

2007-05-22

Last Update

2007-07-06

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

DoS
System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Remediation status

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Software:

FreeType 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-2754 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Victor Stinner has reported a vulnerability in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing malformed TTF fonts in src/truetype/ttgload.c and may be exploited when processing a specially crafted TTF font.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.4. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 2.3.5.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Victor Stinner (INL)

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Original Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=520385&group_id=3157

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.html

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