Fedora 13 : freetype-2.3.11-6.fc13 (2010-15705)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50026

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Oct 4 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.3.11-6

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2805.patch (Fix comparison.)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2806.patch (Protect against negative string_size. Fix comparison.)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2808.patch (Check the total length of collected POST segments.)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-3311.patch (Don't seek behind end of stream.)

- Resolves: #638522

- Mon Oct 4 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.3.11-5

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-1797.patch (Check stack after execution of operations too. Skip the evaluations of the values in decoder, if cff_decoder_parse_charstrings() returns any error.)

- Resolves: #621627

- Fri Oct 1 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.3.11-4

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2498.patch (Assure that `end_point' is not larger than `glyph->num_points')

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2499.patch (Check the buffer size during gathering PFB fragments)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2500.patch (Use smaller threshold values for `width' and `height')

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2519.patch (Check `rlen' the length of fragment declared in the POST fragment header)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2520.patch (Fix bounds check)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2527.patch (Use precision for `%s' where appropriate to avoid buffer overflows)

- Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-2541.patch (Avoid overflow when dealing with names of axes)

- Resolves: #613299

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected freetype package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50026

File Name: fedora_2010-15705.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freetype, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1797, CVE-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2520, CVE-2010-2527, CVE-2010-2541, CVE-2010-2805, CVE-2010-2806, CVE-2010-2808, CVE-2010-3311

BID: 41663, 42241, 42285, 43700

FEDORA: 2010-15705

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