What is CVE-2015-9381?

CVE-2015-9381 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-09-03.

How severe is CVE-2015-9381?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Freetype

CVE-2015-9381

FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-09-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freetype
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/type1/t1parse.c (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/ (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9381?: CVE-2015-9381 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-09-03.
How severe is CVE-2015-9381?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.