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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : freetype (ELSA-2015-0696)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81902

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0696 advisory.

 - Fixes CVE-2014-9657
 - Check minimum size of record_size.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9658
 - Use correct value for minimum table length test.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9675
 - New macro that checks one character more than strncmp.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9660
 - Check _BDF_GLYPH_BITS.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9661
 - Initialize face->ttf_size.
 - Always set face->ttf_size directly.
 - Exclusively use the truetype font driver for loading the font contained in the sfnts array.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9663
 - Fix order of validity tests.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9664
 - Add another boundary testing.
 - Fix boundary testing.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9667
 - Protect against addition overflow.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9669
 - Protect against overflow in additions and multiplications.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9670
 - Add sanity checks for row and column values.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9671
 - Check size and offset values.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9673
 - Fix integer overflow by a broken POST table in resource-fork.
 - Fixes CVE-2014-9674
 - Fix integer overflow by a broken POST table in resource-fork.
 - Additional overflow check in the summation of POST fragment lengths.
 - Fix CVE-2012-5669 (Use correct array size for checking glyph_enc)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0696.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81902

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0696.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9671

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freetype-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freetype-demos, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freetype, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9657, CVE-2014-9658, CVE-2014-9660, CVE-2014-9661, CVE-2014-9663, CVE-2014-9664, CVE-2014-9667, CVE-2014-9669, CVE-2014-9670, CVE-2014-9671, CVE-2014-9673, CVE-2014-9674, CVE-2014-9675

RHSA: 2015:0696