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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:55:09 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com> To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com Cc: Ulrik Persson <ddefrostt@...il.com>, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org> Subject: Re: CVE Request -- FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header Please use CVE-2010-4259 for this. Thanks. -- JB ----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote: > Hello Steve, vendors, > > Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow > flaw in the way FontForge font editor processed certain > Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) font files, with > specially-crafted value of the CHARSET_REGISTRY header. > A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted BDF > font file and trick a local, unsuspecting user into > opening it in FontForge, which could lead to fontforge > executable crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution > with the privileges of the user running the executable. > > References: > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537 > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359 > > Public PoC: > [3] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=fontforge-overflow.txt;att=1;bug=605537 > > Flaw severity note: > On systems with compile time buffer checks (FORTIFY_SOURCE) > feature enabled, the impact of this flaw is mitigated to > be only crash. > > Could you allocate a CVE id for this issue? > > Thanks && Regards, Jan. > -- > Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
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