Vulnerability in Freetype
CVE-2014-9670
Multiple integer signedness errors in the pcf_get_encodings function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a crafted PCF file that specifies negative values for the first column and first row.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.042 (90.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.042 · newest: 0.042 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Freetype
- Oracle Solaris — versions 10.0, 11.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 20, 21
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 6.0, 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node — versions 6, 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus — versions 7.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 6.0, 7.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail (Exploit)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 (vdb-entry)
- git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)