PT-2015-4345 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2014-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9672

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue is related to an array index error in the parse fond function, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information from process memory. This can be achieved through a crafted FOND resource in a Mac 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 access to Mac font files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2420

CVE-2014-9672

DLA-185-1

DSA-3188-1

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 · 172

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=155 · Exploit
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9672 · Security Note
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9672 · 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-2014-9672 · 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