PT-2015-4338 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2014-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9665

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 Load SBit Png function in sfnt/pngshim.c, which does not properly restrict the rows and pitch values of PNG data. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, including integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow, or possibly have other unspecified impacts by embedding a PNG file in a .ttf font file.

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 PNG files embedded in .ttf font files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2420

CVE-2014-9665

DLA-185-1

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 · 160

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=168 · 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9661 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9665 · 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9665 · Vendor Advisory
• 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