metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-02.xml

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<glsa id="200705-02">
  <title>FreeType: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for user-assisted
    remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">freetype</product>
  <announced>May 01, 2007</announced>
  <revised>May 27, 2007: 02</revised>
  <bug>172577</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/freetype" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.10-r3</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="lt">2.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.10-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Greg MacManus of iDefense Labs has discovered an integer overflow in
    the function bdfReadCharacters() when parsing BDF fonts.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to use a specially crafted BDF
    font, possibly resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow and the remote
    execution of arbitrary code.
    </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-2.1.10-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1351">CVE-2007-1351</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:19:23 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:19:45 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:55:44 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>