CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9659
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-02-08
- 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
cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.
Affected configurations
• oracle solaris 10.0
• oracle solaris 11.2
• freetype freetype (<= 2.5.3)
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 Exploit
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 security.gentoo.org
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 Exploit
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 security.gentoo.org