CVE-2014-9664

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.

• CWE-119

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84caPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055Broken Link
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84caPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055Broken Link
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

Published

Feb 8, 2015

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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