CVE - CVE-2014-9674

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9674	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
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=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3 CONFIRM:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html DEBIAN:DSA-3461 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461 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=153 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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