Vulnerability CVE-2010-2527
Published: 2010-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614557
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30054
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127912955808467&w=2
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2-demos.git/commit/?id=b995299b73ba4cd259f221f500d4e63095508bec
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