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RHEL 5 : freetype (RHSA-2009:1061)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 38873

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated freetype packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. These packages provide the FreeType 2 font engine.

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several integer overflow flaws in the FreeType 2 font engine. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType 2, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2009-0946)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected freetype, freetype-demos and / or freetype-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2009-0946

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1061

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 38873

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1061.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freetype-demos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freetype-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freetype, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.3

Required KB Items: Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0946

CWE: 189

RHSA: 2009:1061