oss-security - Possible CVE request: freetype: out-of-bounds stack-based read/write in cf2_hintmap_build() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240)

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Message-ID: <20141210134550.GE10499@mail.corp.redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:45:50 +0100
From: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Possible CVE request: freetype: out-of-bounds stack-based read/write
 in cf2_hintmap_build() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240)

Hello,

Freetype version 2.5.4 fixes another out-of-bounds stack-based
read/write which is similar to CVE-2014-2240.
Does it deserve a separate CVE? If so - please assign one.

Upstream bug: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43661

References:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.5.4/
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14771
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172633

Thanks.
-- 
Vasyl Kaigorodov | Red Hat Product Security
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