CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9671

4.3 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])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Off-by-one error in the pcf_get_properties function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PCF file with a 0xffffffff size value that is improperly incremented.

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 • 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 • oracle solaris 10.0 • oracle solaris 11.2 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • freetype freetype (<= 2.5.3)

References