CVE-2014-9674
The Mac_Read_POST_Resource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.
- EPSS
- 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- freetype:freetype
- opensuse:opensuse
- oracle:solaris
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node
- redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html