CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9674

7.5 HIGH 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]): 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Mac_Read_POST_Resource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.

Affected configurations

• 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 • fedoraproject fedora 20 • fedoraproject fedora 21 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 6.0 • 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 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • freetype freetype (<= 2.5.3)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html Third Party Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153 Exploit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461 www.debian.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 www.securityfocus.com
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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html Third Party Advisory
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153 Exploit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461 www.debian.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 Broken Link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 www.securityfocus.com
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