CVE - CVE-2014-9675

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9675	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF 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=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html CONFIRM:https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.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=151 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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