CVE-2014-9664

Public Exploit

Description

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

Category

6.8
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.13% Top 25%
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Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 vdb entry
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca patch vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html third party advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 vendor advisory broken link
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 exploit patch vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-9664?
CVE-2014-9664 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-9664?
To fix CVE-2014-9664, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-9664 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-9664 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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