CVE-2014-9664

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FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attacke

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.01169

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Public exploit or PoC is available

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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Affected Products & Versions

redhat enterprise linux desktopall versions
redhat enterprise linux hpc nodeall versions
redhat enterprise linux hpc node eusall versions
redhat enterprise linux serverall versions
redhat enterprise linux server eusall versions
redhat enterprise linux workstationall versions
debian linuxall versions
opensuseall versions
Show all 12 affected productscanonical ubuntu linuxall versions
fedoraproject fedoraall versions
freetype<= 2.5.3
oracle solarisall versions

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Public Exploits & PoCs

poccode.google.com · detail?id=183code.google.com

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6.8

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD08 Feb 2015 · 11:59 AM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10172-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10438-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0455-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0463-1
usnUSN-2510-1
Show all 6 vendor advisoriesrhsaRHSA-2015:0696Important

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84caPatchVendor Advisory

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.htmlThird Party Advisory

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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188Third Party Advisory

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

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlThird Party Advisory

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

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

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

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

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