CVE-2014-9659 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow in Freetype

CWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer OverflowCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
FreetypeCanonical Ubuntu LinuxFedoraproject Fedora+2 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 8
Latest updateMay 14

Description

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianfreetype/freetype< 2.5.2-3+3
▶NVDoracle/solaris10.0, 11.2+1
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

Also affects: Fedora 20, 21, Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04

Patches

Patch: git.savannah.gnu.org ↗Patch: git.savannah.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mhjx-8fg8-xcp5: cff/cf2intrp↗2022-05-14
▶
CVEList
CVE-2014-9659: cff/cf2intrp↗2015-02-08
▶
OSV
CVE-2014-9659: cff/cf2intrp↗2015-02-08
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FreeType vulnerabilities↗2015-02-24
▶
Red Hat
freetype: stack-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter↗2014-11-24
▶
Debian
CVE-2014-9659: freetype - cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 procee...↗2014
▶

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9656 CVE-2014-9657 CVE-2014-9661 CVE-2014-9660 CVE-2014-9667 CVE-2014-9666 CVE-2014-9665 CVE-2014-9664 CVE-2014-9669 CVE-2014-9668 CVE-2014-9662 CVE-2014-9658 CVE-2014-9659 CVE-2014-9663 CVE-↗2015-02-10
▶
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9659 freetype: stack-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter↗2015-02-10
▶
CVE-2014-9659 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow in Freetype | cvebase