CVE-2014-9675
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-264
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlAdvisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7
- 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=151Exploit