Scientific Linux: CVE-2006-1861 Important Freetype Security Update

Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:51:38 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: freetype on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: freetype security update
Issue date: 2009-05-22
CVE Names: CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2007-2754 CVE-2008-1808
 CVE-2009-0946

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several integer overflow
flaws in the FreeType 2 font engine. If a user loaded a
carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType
2, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2009-0946)

Chris Evans discovered multiple integer overflow flaws in the FreeType
font engine. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an
application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to
crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running the application. (CVE-2006-1861)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font engine
processed TrueType=AE Font (TTF) files. If a user loaded a
carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType,
it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2007-2754)

A flaw was discovered in the FreeType TTF font-file format parser when
the TrueType virtual machine Byte Code Interpreter (BCI) is enabled. If
a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an application linked
against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
application. (CVE-2008-1808)

The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this
update to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.4-12.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.4-12.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-12.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-12.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-12.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.4-12.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.4-12.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-12.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-12.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-12.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.9-10.el4.7.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-10.el4.7.i386.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson