CVE-2014-9664

Description

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3