PT-2015-4378 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Simon Bünzli · Published 2014-03-11 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-9745

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeType versions prior to 2.5.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by providing a "broken number-with-base" in a Postscript stream. This can be demonstrated with input such as '8#garbage'.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.5.3, update to version 2.5.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the parse encoding function to prevent the infinite loop.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1274

CVE-2014-9745

DLA-319-1

DSA-3370-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1149-1

SUSE-SU-2016_1149-1

USN-2739-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freetype

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 42

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9745 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3370-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2739-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9746 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00017.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9745 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9745 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9747 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1274 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2241 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9745 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9745 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09767 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3370-1 · Vendor Advisory