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CVE-2012-1133

Published: 7 March 2012

FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid heap write operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted glyph or bitmap data in a BDF font.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
Reproducer does not trigger in hardy-oneiric, but code is present
See Red Hat Bugzilla comment #8 for a great analysis
Patching hardy-oneiric in case the regression fix, which would expose
this vulnerability, is ever backported

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
freetype
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy
Released (2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.9)
lucid
Released (2.3.11-1ubuntu2.6)
maverick
Released (2.4.2-2ubuntu0.4)
natty
Released (2.4.4-1ubuntu2.3)
oneiric
Released (2.4.4-2ubuntu1.2)
upstream
Released (2.4.9)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=28dd2c45957278e962f95633157b6139de8170aa