CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-2240

7.5 HIGH Published 2014-03-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-03-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the cf2_hintmap_build function in cff/cf2hints.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of stem hints in a font file.

Affected configurations

• freetype freetype (<= 2.5.2) • freetype freetype 1.3.1 • freetype freetype 2.0.0 • freetype freetype 2.0.1 • freetype freetype 2.0.2 • freetype freetype 2.0.3 • freetype freetype 2.0.4 • freetype freetype 2.0.5 • freetype freetype 2.0.6 • freetype freetype 2.0.7 • freetype freetype 2.0.8 • freetype freetype 2.0.9 • freetype freetype 2.1 • freetype freetype 2.1.3 • freetype freetype 2.1.4 • freetype freetype 2.1.5 • freetype freetype 2.1.6 • freetype freetype 2.1.7 • freetype freetype 2.1.8 • freetype freetype 2.1.9 • freetype freetype 2.1.10 • freetype freetype 2.2.0 • freetype freetype 2.2.1 • freetype freetype 2.3.0 • freetype freetype 2.3.1 • freetype freetype 2.3.2 • freetype freetype 2.3.3 • freetype freetype 2.3.4 • freetype freetype 2.3.5 • freetype freetype 2.3.6 • freetype freetype 2.3.7 • freetype freetype 2.3.8 • freetype freetype 2.3.9 • freetype freetype 2.3.10 • freetype freetype 2.3.11 • freetype freetype 2.3.12 • freetype freetype 2.4.0 • freetype freetype 2.4.1 • freetype freetype 2.4.2 • freetype freetype 2.4.3 • freetype freetype 2.4.4 • freetype freetype 2.4.5 • freetype freetype 2.4.6 • freetype freetype 2.4.7 • freetype freetype 2.4.8 • freetype freetype 2.4.9 • freetype freetype 2.4.10 • freetype freetype 2.4.11 • freetype freetype 2.4.12 • freetype freetype 2.5 • freetype freetype 2.5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References