CVE-2014-9670
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-189
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Multiple integer signedness errors in the pcf_get_encodings function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a crafted PCF file that specifies negative values for the first column and first row.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=ef1eba75187adfac750f326b563fe543dd5ff4e6 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=ef1eba75187adfac750f326b563fe543dd5ff4e6Patch
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlAdvisory
- 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
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=158Exploit