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Fedora 12 : freetype-2.3.11-7.fc12 (2010-17755)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50672

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Nov 15 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.3.11-7

 - Add freetype-2.3.11-CVE-2010-3855.patch (Protect against invalid `runcnt' values.)

 - Resolves: #651764

 - 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

 - Thu Dec 3 2009 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at redhat.com> 2.3.11-3

 - Add freetype-2.3.11-more-demos.patch

 - New demo programs ftmemchk, ftpatchk, and fttimer

 - Thu Dec 3 2009 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at redhat.com> 2.3.11-2

 - Second try. Drop upstreamed patches.

 - Thu Dec 3 2009 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at redhat.com> 2.3.11-1

 - 2.3.11

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645275

http://www.nessus.org/u?e2109caa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50672

File Name: fedora_2010-17755.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freetype, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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: 11/15/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3855

BID: 44214

FEDORA: 2010-17755