Scientific Linux: 2008-1806 Critical Freetype Font Parsing Flaw

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:18:34 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for freetype on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: freetype security update
Issue date:	2008-06-20
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1806 CVE-2008-1807 CVE-2008-1808

Multiple flaws were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary (PFB) and
TrueType Font (TTF) font-file format parsers. If a user loaded a carefully
crafted font-file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause
the application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807, CVE-2008-1808)

Note: the flaw in FreeType's TrueType Font (TTF) font-file format parser,
covered by CVE-2008-1808, did not affect the freetype packages as shipped
in Scientific Linux 3, 4, and 5, as they are not compiled with TTF
Byte Code Interpreter (BCI) support.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.4-8.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.4-8.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-8.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-8.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-8.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.4-8.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.4-8.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-8.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-8.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-8.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.9-7.el4.6.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.9-7.el4.6.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-7.el4.6.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-7.el4.6.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-7.el4.6.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.9-7.el4.6.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.9-7.el4.6.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-7.el4.6.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-7.el4.6.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-7.el4.6.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.2.1-20.el5_2.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.2.1-20.el5_2.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-20.el5_2.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-20.el5_2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.2.1-20.el5_2.i386.rpm
freetype-2.2.1-20.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-20.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-20.el5_2.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-20.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson