CVE-2015-9290 — Out-of-bounds Read in Freetype

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FreetypeDebian Freetype
Timeline
PublishedJul 30
Latest updateMay 24

Description

In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new values of cur and limit are sensible before going to Again.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/freetype< freetype 2.6.1-0.1 (bookworm)
▶NVDfreetype/freetype< 2.6.1
▶Debianfreetype/freetype< 2.6.1-0.1+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q6g8-r8r7-hmpm: In FreeType before 2↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2015-9290: In FreeType before 2↗2019-07-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
freetype: buffer over-read in function T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c↗2019-07-30
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Debian
CVE-2015-9290: freetype - In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on functi...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-9290 freetype: buffer over-read in function T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c [fedora-all]↗2019-08-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-9290 freetype: buffer over-read in function T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c↗2019-08-16
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