CVE-2012-1133

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2012-02-23
CWE:
(CWE-122|CWE-787)
Bugzilla:
800591: CVE-2012-1133 freetype: heap buffer underflow in BDF parser _bdf_parse_glyphs() (#35607)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid heap write operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted glyph or bitmap data in a BDF font.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1133 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect freetype packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 freetype Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.

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