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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2018.0128
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0128)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'freetype2' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2018-0128 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'freetype2' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2018-0128 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerability:

FreeType 2 before 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based
buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c
(CVE-2017-7864).

Affected Software/OS:
'freetype2' package(s) on Mageia 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-7864
BugTraq ID: 97673
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
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