Vulnerability in Freetype

CVE-2014-9661

type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not consider that scanning can be incomplete without triggering an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.044 (90.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-9661: held from 0.044 to 0.044.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000

Affected products

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