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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:11:58 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "X.Org Security Team" <xorg-security@...ts.x.org>
Subject: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: More BDF file parsing issues
in libXfont
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: More BDF file parsing issues in
libXfont
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:08:33 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: xorg-announce@...ts.x.org
CC: William Robinet <william.robinet@...ostix.com>, xorg@...ts.x.org,
xorg-devel@...ts.x.org, Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@...ctive.com>
X.Org Security Advisory: March 17, 2015
More BDF file parsing issues in libXfont
========================================
Description:
============
Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an
issue in the parsing of BDF font files by libXfont. Additional testing by
Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet with the American Fuzzy Lop (afl) tool
uncovered two more issues in the parsing of BDF font files.
As libXfont is used by the X server to read font files, and an unprivileged
user with access to the X server can tell the X server to read a given font
file from a path of their choosing, these vulnerabilities have the potential
to allow unprivileged users to run code with the privileges of the X server
(often root access).
The vulnerabilities are:
- CVE-2015-1802: bdfReadProperties: property count needs range check
The bdf parser reads a count for the number of properties defined in
a font from the font file, and allocates arrays with entries for each
property based on that count. It never checked to see if that count
was negative, or large enough to overflow when multiplied by the size
of the structures being allocated, and could thus allocate the wrong
buffer size, leading to out of bounds writes.
- CVE-2015-1803: bdfReadCharacters: bailout if a char's bitmap cannot be read
If the bdf parser failed to parse the data for the bitmap for any
character, it would proceed with an invalid pointer to the bitmap
data and later crash when trying to read the bitmap from that pointer.
- CVE-2015-1804: bdfReadCharacters: ensure metrics fit into xCharInfo struct
The bdf parser read metrics values as 32-bit integers, but stored
them into 16-bit integers. Overflows could occur in various operations
leading to out-of-bounds memory access.
Affected Versions
=================
X.Org believes all prior versions of this library contain these flaws,
dating back to its introduction in X11R5.
Fixes
=====
Fixes are available in the patches for these libXfont git commits:
2deda9906480f9c8ae07b8c2a5510cc7e4c59a8e
78c2e3d70d29698244f70164428bd2868c0ab34c
2351c83a77a478b49cba6beb2ad386835e264744
Which are now available from:
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXfont
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/
Fixes will also be included in the libXfont 1.5.1 & 1.4.9 module releases
from X.Org.
Thanks
======
X.Org thanks Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive, Alan Coopersmith of Oracle, and
William Robinet of Conostix for reporting these issues to our security team
and helping evaluate and test the fixes; and thanks Michal Zalewski and the
American Fuzzy Lop community for providing their fuzz testing tool as an open
source project we can all benefit from at http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ .
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
X.Org Security Response Team - xorg-security@...ts.x.org
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