PT-2015-4333 · Freetype+5 · Freetype+5

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2014-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9660

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeType versions prior to 2.5.4

Description The issue is related to the bdf parse glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c, which does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted BDF font, potentially leading to a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference or possibly having other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.5.4, update to version 2.5.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of crafted BDF fonts to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2420

CESA-2015_0696

CVE-2014-9660

DLA-185-1

DSA-3188-1

MGASA-2015-0083

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10172-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10438-1

RHSA-2015:0696

RHSA-2015_0696

SUSE-SU-2015:0455-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0463-1

USN-2510-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Freetype

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 202

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=188 · Exploit
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2420 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9747 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9669 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9660 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9661 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9664 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9668 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9668 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9746 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9671 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10172-1 · Vendor Advisory