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>> FreeType Multiple Buffer Overflow and Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Title : FreeType Multiple Buffer Overflow and Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1794
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1806 - CVE-2008-1807 - CVE-2008-1808
CWE ID : CWE-19 - CWE-119 - CWE-189 - CWE-193
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-06-11


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in FreeType, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected system.

The first issue is caused by an integer overflow error when parsing Printer Font Binary (PFB) format font files with a specially crafted "Private" dictionary table, which could be exploited to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or execute arbitrary code.

The second vulnerability is caused by an error when parsing Printer Font Binary (PFB) format font files with an invalid "number of axes", which could be exploited to cause a vulnerable library to call the "free()" function on areas of memory that were not dynamically allocated, leading to memory corruption and arbitrary code execution.

The third issue is caused by an off-by-one error when parsing tables within Printer Font Binary (PFB) format font files, which could be exploited to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or execute arbitrary code.

The fourth vulnerability is caused by an off-by-one error when handling "SHC" instructions within TrueType Font (TTF) font files, which could be exploited to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

FreeType version 2.3.5 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to FreeType version 2.3.6 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1794
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=3157&release_id=605780
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=715
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=716
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=717

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by regenrecht via iDefense Labs.

ChangeLog

2008-06-11 : Initial release

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