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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:15:41 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: FreeType malformed compressed data issue
Hey, you're right, this one was just a non-exploitable crash, the
other issues were regular integer overflow. I didn't report this
particular one as a security issue, but it was fixed at the same time,
sorry for the confusion :-)
Thanks, Tavis.
2009/4/16 Steven M. Christey <coley@...us.mitre.org>:
>
> I'm processing CVE-2009-0946 for the various integer overflows found by
> Tavis Ormandy for FreeType, as captured in:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491384
>
> But there's also this commit:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=0a05ba257b6ddd87dacf8d54b626e4b360e0a596
>
> This bug doesn't smell exactly like an integer overflow, but there's not
> enough immediate context to tell. Is this a different bug type? If so,
> it needs a new CVE.
>
> - Steve
>
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