Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | FreeType vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-2148-1 | First vendor Publication | 2014-03-17 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2014-03-17 |
| 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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 13.10 Summary: FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font file. Software Description: - freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library Details: Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed 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. (CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.10: 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-2148-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 50 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
| 50 % | CWE-20 | Improper Input Validation |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24347 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24347 | ||
| Title: | USN-2148-1 -- freetype vulnerabilities | ||
| Description: | FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font file. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-2148-1 CVE-2014-2240 CVE-2014-2241 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 13.10 | Product(s): | freetype |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
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| 2015-03-30 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-089.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-19 | Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update. File : Slackware_SSA_2015-016-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-05 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-16854.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-02 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-17550.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2015-01-02 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-17580.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-12-26 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-16840.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-12-08 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_567beb1e7e0a11e4b9ccbcaec565249c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-08-10 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201408-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-10 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-6830.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-06-10 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2014-6833.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2014-03-18 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-2148-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-03-19 13:21:33 |
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| 2014-03-18 21:25:14 |
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| 2014-03-17 13:19:56 |
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