Security Bulletin
Summary
PowerKVM is affected by multiple freetype vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2014-9657
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the tt_face_load_hdmx function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted TrueType font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100797 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9658
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the tt_face_load_kern function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted TrueType font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100798 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9660
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the _bdf_parse_glyphs function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted BDF font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100800 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9661
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an use-after-free error in type42/t42parse.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted Type42 font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100801 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9663
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the tt_cmap4_validate function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted cmap SFNT table to cause the a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100822 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9664
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a parsing error in type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c . A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted Type42 font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100830 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9667
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read in sfnt/ttload.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted SFNT table to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100803 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9669
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by multiple integer overflows in sfnt/ttcmap.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted cmap SFNT table to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100824 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9670
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by multiple integer signedness errors in the pcf_get_encodings function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted PCF files to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100825 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9671
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an off-by-one error in the pcf_get_properties function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted PCF files to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100826 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9673
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer signedness error in the Mac_Read_POST_Resource function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted Mac font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100828 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2014-9674
DESCRIPTION: FreeType is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow in the Mac_Read_POST_Resource function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted Mac font to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100829 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Affected Products and Versions
PowerKVM 2.1
Remediation/Fixes
Fix is made available via Fix Central (https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8) in 2.1.1 SP2 (build 51) and all later builds and fix packs. For systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README for prerequisite fixes and instructions. Customers can also update from 2.1.1 (GA and later levels) by using "yum update".
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
15 May 2015 - Initial Version
5 June 2015 - Updated remediation plan
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
isg3T1022253