PT-2015-4335 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2014-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9662

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 cff/cf2ft.c file in FreeType, where it fails to validate the return values of point-allocation functions. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted OTF font, potentially leading to a denial of service due to a heap-based buffer overflow, or possibly other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.5.4, update to version 2.5.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2420

CVE-2014-9662

MGASA-2015-0083

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10172-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10438-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0455-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0463-1

USN-2510-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freetype

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 166

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=185 · 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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9662 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9661 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9662 · 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