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CVE-2014-9664

Date: February 8, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (19)

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9664

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html

Url: http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9664

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9664

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-9664

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2014-9664

Date: February 8, 2015

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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