CVE-2012-1134

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2012-02-23
CWE:
(CWE-122|CWE-787)
Bugzilla:
800592: CVE-2012-1134 freetype: limited heap buffer overflow in Type1 parser T1_Get_Private_Dict() (#35608)

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 private-dictionary data in a Type 1 font.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1134 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (freetype) RHSA-2012:0467 2012-04-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (freetype) RHSA-2012:0467 2012-04-10

Acknowledgements

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

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