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Debian DSA-2253-1 : fontforge - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55041

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in FontForge, a font editor. When processed a crafted Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) FontForge could crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running FontForge.

Solution

Upgrade the fontforge packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20080429-1+lenny2.

The stable distribution (squeeze), testing distribution (wheezy), and unstable distribution (sid) are not affected by this problem.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2253

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55041

File Name: debian_DSA-2253.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:debian:debian_linux:fontforge, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4259

BID: 45162

DSA: 2253