Vulnerability CVE-2010-2497
Published: 2010-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Integer underflow in glyph handling in FreeType before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

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Topic
Author
Date
High
FreeType 2 Font File Processing Errors (Execute Arbitrary Code)
Werner LEMBERG
22.08.2010

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Freetype -> Freetype 

 References:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30083
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30082
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613154
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7d3d2cc4fef72c6be9c454b3809c387e12b44cfc
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