Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69960
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2253-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'fontforge' package(s) announced via the DSA-2253-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'fontforge' package(s) announced via the DSA-2253-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in FontForge, a font editor. When processed a crafted Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) FontForge could crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running FontForge. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20080429-1+lenny2. The stable distribution (squeeze), testing distribution (wheezy), and unstable distribution (sid) are not affected by this problem. We recommend that you upgrade your fontforge packages. Affected Software/OS: 'fontforge' package(s) on Debian 5. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 6.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-4259 15732 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15732 42577 http://secunia.com/advisories/42577 45162 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45162 ADV-2010-3200 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3200 DSA-2253 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2253 FEDORA-2010-18573 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052201.html FEDORA-2010-18577 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052219.html [oss-security] 20101202 CVE Request -- FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/5 [oss-security] 20101202 Re: CVE Request -- FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/8 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359
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