oss-security - Re: 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: <CANJC7MHKvu=JmvERrbh7tb7gv-sQpKFDrNzgj1hWnAr0MMziKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:56:29 +0100
From: Mateusz Jurczyk <j00ru.vx@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible CVE request: freetype: out-of-bounds
 stack-based read/write in cf2_hintmap_build() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240)

Hey, original finder of both vulnerabilities here. I've sent a CVE request
to MITRE today for this and multiple other vulnerabilities fixed in 2.5.4,
I'll update this thread once they are assigned.

Cheers,
Mateusz

2014-12-10 14:45 GMT+01:00 Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro@...hat.com>:

> 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
> PGP:  0xABB6E828 A7E0 87FF 5AB5 48EB 47D0 2868 217B F9FC ABB6 E828
>

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