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SciLinux: 2007:0050 Moderate: Freetype Integer Overflow Risk

Calendar Jun 12, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate arbitrary code execution integer overflow application crash freetype SL5
Moderate: freetype security update 
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:06:34 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for freetype on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: freetype security update
Issue date:	2007-06-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-2754

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font engine
processed TTF font files. If a user loaded a carefully crafted font file
with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to
crash or execute arbitrary code. While it is uncommon for a user to
explicitly load a font file, there are several application file formats
which contain embedded fonts that are parsed by FreeType. (CVE-2007-2754)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	freetype-2.1.4-7.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
	freetype-2.1.4-7.el3.i386.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.1.4-7.el3.i386.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.1.4-7.el3.i386.rpm
	freetype-utils-2.1.4-7.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	freetype-2.1.4-7.el3.i386.rpm
	freetype-2.1.4-7.el3.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.1.4-7.el3.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.1.4-7.el3.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-utils-2.1.4-7.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	freetype-2.1.9-6.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
	freetype-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm
	freetype-utils-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	freetype-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm
	freetype-2.1.9-6.el4.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.1.9-6.el4.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.1.9-6.el4.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-utils-2.1.9-6.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
	freetype-2.2.1-19.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
	freetype-2.2.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.2.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.2.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	freetype-2.2.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
	freetype-2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-demos-2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.2.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
	freetype-devel-2.2.1-19.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson