PublicDateAtUSN: 2010-08-12
Candidate: CVE-2010-2806
PublicDate: 2010-08-19 18:00:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2806
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-972-1
Description:
 Array index error in the t42_parse_sfnts function in type42/t42parse.c in
 FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
 (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via negative size
 values for certain strings in FontType42 font files, leading to a
 heap-based buffer overflow.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
 https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30656
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621980
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_freetype:
 upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c06da1ad34663da7b6fc39b030dc3ae185b96557
upstream_freetype: released (2.4.2)
dapper_freetype: released (2.1.10-1ubuntu2.8)
hardy_freetype: released (2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.4)
jaunty_freetype: released (2.3.9-4ubuntu0.3)
karmic_freetype: released (2.3.9-5ubuntu0.2)
lucid_freetype: released (2.3.11-1ubuntu2.2)
devel_freetype: not-affected (2.4.2-1)