CVE-2014-9664 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Freetype

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-193 — Off-by-one ErrorCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents8 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
FreetypeCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+9 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 8
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages8 packages

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

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Fedora 20, 21, Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, Enterprise Linux 6.6.z, 7.1

Patches

Patch: code.google.com ↗Patch: git.savannah.gnu.org ↗Patch: code.google.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-96vp-w36f-3m77: FreeType before 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2014-9664: FreeType before 2↗2015-02-08
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CVEList
CVE-2014-9664: FreeType before 2↗2015-02-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
FreeType vulnerabilities↗2015-02-24
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Red Hat
freetype: off-by-one buffer over-read in parse_charstrings() / t42_parse_charstrings()↗2014-11-24
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Debian
CVE-2014-9664: freetype - FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain pars...↗2014
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💬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
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9664 freetype: off-by-one buffer over-read in parse_charstrings() / t42_parse_charstrings()↗2015-02-10
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CVE-2014-9664 — Freetype vulnerability | cvebase