CVE-2014-9674

FreeType <2.5.4 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

References (15)

Core 15

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html

Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055

Exploit x_refsource_misc

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0431

EPSS Percentile 89.0%

Details

Status published

Products (23)

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

fedoraproject/fedora 20

fedoraproject/fedora 21

freetype/freetype < 2.5.3

opensuse/opensuse 13.1

opensuse/opensuse 13.2

... and 13 more

Published Feb 08, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026