CVE-2014-9664
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Memory corruption
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183Patch
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84caPatch
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlAdvisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.htmlAdvisory