PT-2015-4346 · Freetype+5 · Freetype+5

Mateusz Jurczyk · Published 2014-12-07 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-9673

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/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 an integer signedness error in the Mac Read POST Resource function in base/ftobjs.c. This error can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted Mac font, potentially leading to a denial of service due to a heap-based buffer overflow, 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.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2420

CESA-2015_0696

CVE-2014-9673

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 · 200

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=154 · 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9661 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9673 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9673 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9673 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9673 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9668 · Vendor Advisory