Description
bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=151 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html ↗
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 ↗
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html ↗
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7 ↗