medium
6.8
CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2014-9664: Buffer Overflow

First published: Sun Feb 08 2015(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop=6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop=7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node=6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node=7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node=7.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server=6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server=7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server=6.6.z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server=7.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation=6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation=7.0
Debian=7.0
SUSE Linux=13.1
SUSE Linux=13.2
Ubuntu=10.04
Ubuntu=12.04
Ubuntu=14.04
Ubuntu=14.10
Ubuntu=15.04
Fedora=20
Fedora=21
FreeType<=2.5.3
Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS)=10.0
Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS)=11.2

Remedy

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

Remedy

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2014-9664?

    The severity of CVE-2014-9664 is considered moderate due to potential denial of service impacts.

  • How do I fix CVE-2014-9664?

    To fix CVE-2014-9664, update FreeType to version 2.5.4 or newer.

  • What software is affected by CVE-2014-9664?

    CVE-2014-9664 affects FreeType before version 2.5.4 on various Linux distributions including Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.

  • What types of attacks can CVE-2014-9664 enable?

    CVE-2014-9664 can enable remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability for denial of service via crafted Type42 fonts.

  • Is CVE-2014-9664 a local or remote vulnerability?

    CVE-2014-9664 is a remote vulnerability as it can be exploited through malformed fonts sent to the affected software.

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