CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9664

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2015-02-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 6 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus 7.1 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.6.z • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.1 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • 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 • fedoraproject fedora 20 • fedoraproject fedora 21 • freetype freetype (<= 2.5.3) • oracle solaris 10.0 • oracle solaris 11.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References