CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9745
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a "broken number-with-base" in a Postscript stream, as demonstrated by 8#garbage.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (<= 2.5.2)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=df14e6c0b9592cbb24d5381dfc6106b14f915e75 git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?41590 savannah.nongnu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3370 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76727 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033536 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1492124 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=459050 code.google.com
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=df14e6c0b9592cbb24d5381dfc6106b14f915e75 git.savannah.gnu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00017.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?41590 savannah.nongnu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3370 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76727 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033536 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1492124 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=459050 code.google.com