CVE-2014-9659
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.
- EPSS
- 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- freetype:freetype
- opensuse:opensuse
- oracle:solaris
References
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html