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SUSE 12-SP3: 2018:0414-1 Important Fix for freetype2 DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2018
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SUSE releases an advisory regarding a freetype2 upgrade addressing numerous serious vulnerabilities impacting various systems and frameworks.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Summary

This update for freetype2 fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2016-10244: Make sure that the parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c does ensure that a font contains a glyph name to prevent a DoS through a heap-based buffer over-read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file (bsc#1028103) - CVE-2017-8105: Fix an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.ca (bsc#1035807) - CVE-2017-8287: an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c (bsc#1036457) - Fix several integer overflow issues in truetype/ttinterp.c (bsc#1079600) Patch Instructions:

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security advisory DoS server important freetype2

References

#1028103 #1035807 #1036457 #1079600

Cross- CVE-2016-10244 CVE-2017-7864 CVE-2017-8105

CVE-2017-8287

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10244.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7864.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8105.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8287.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028103

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1035807

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036457

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1
Rating: important

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