CVE-2014-9675

Description

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055

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=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3