Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | FreeType vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-1686-1 | First vendor Publication | 2013-01-14 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2013-01-14 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 11.10 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Summary: FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software Description: - freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library Details: Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed BDF font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.10: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Ubuntu 11.10: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1686-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18237 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18237 | ||
| Title: | USN-1686-1 -- freetype vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-1686-1 CVE-2012-5668 CVE-2012-5669 CVE-2012-5670 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 8.04 | Product(s): | freetype |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20791 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20791 | ||
| Title: | RHSA-2013:0216: freetype security update (Important) | ||
| Description: | The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to BDF fonts and an incorrect calculation that triggers an out-of-bounds read. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | RHSA-2013:0216-02 CESA-2013:0216 CVE-2012-5669 | Version: | 4 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 CentOS Linux 5 CentOS Linux 6 | Product(s): | freetype |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23146 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23146 | ||
| Title: | DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013:0216: freetype security update (Important) | ||
| Description: | The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to BDF fonts and an incorrect calculation that triggers an out-of-bounds read. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2013:0216-02 CVE-2012-5669 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 Oracle Linux 6 | Product(s): | freetype |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23818 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23818 | ||
| Title: | ELSA-2013:0216: freetype security update (Important) | ||
| Description: | The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to BDF fonts and an incorrect calculation that triggers an out-of-bounds read. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2013:0216-02 CVE-2012-5669 | Version: | 6 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 Oracle Linux 6 | Product(s): | freetype |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27471 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27471 | ||
| Title: | DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-0216 -- freetype security update (important) | ||
| Description: | [2.3.11-14.el6_3.1] - Fix CVE-2012-5669 (Use correct array size for checking 'glyph_enc') - Resolves: #903542 [2.3.11-14] - A little change in configure part - Related: #723468 | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | ELSA-2013-0216 CVE-2012-5669 | Version: | 4 |
| Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 Oracle Linux 6 | Product(s): | freetype |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016-02-03 | Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch. File : f5_bigip_SOL15095307.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-03-20 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0036.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-19 | Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software. File : solaris11_freetype_20140415.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2013-44.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2013-42.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-02-12 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-09-04 | Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update. File : ala_ALAS-2013-150.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0216.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-04-20 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-039.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-13 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-1466.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-09 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-05 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-1492.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-04 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20130131_freetype_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-01 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0216.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-02-01 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2013-0216.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-01-25 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_freetype2-130115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-01-25 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_freetype2-8433.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-01-16 | Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update. File : Slackware_SSA_2013-015-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2013-01-15 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1686-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 12:01:18 |
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| 2013-01-25 17:20:01 |
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| 2013-01-25 13:19:53 |
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| 2013-01-14 21:19:03 |
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