gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200705-22">
  <title>FreeType: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the execution
    of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">freetype</product>
  <announced>May 30, 2007</announced>
  <revised>May 30, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>179161</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/freetype" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.3.4-r2</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="lt">2.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.4-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Victor Stinner discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the function
    Get_VMetrics() in src/truetype/ttgload.c when processing TTF files with
    a negative n_points attribute.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted TTF
    file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user running FreeType.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All FreeType users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-libs/freetype-2.3.4-r2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2754">CVE-2007-2754</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 22 May 2007 15:08:56 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 22 May 2007 15:38:03 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 27 May 2007 16:46:08 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>