CVE - CVE-2014-9664

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9664	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:72986 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html CONFIRM:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca CONFIRM:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html DEBIAN:DSA-3188 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-2216 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-2237 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html GENTOO:GLSA-201503-05 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:055 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0696 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:0627 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html UBUNTU:USN-2510-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 UBUNTU:USN-2739-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150207	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150207)
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