What is CVE-2015-9382?

CVE-2015-9382 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-09-03.

How severe is CVE-2015-9382?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Freetype

CVE-2015-9382

FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token is mishandled in an FT_New_Memory_Face operation.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · 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/psaux/psobjs.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-2015-9382?: CVE-2015-9382 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-09-03.
How severe is CVE-2015-9382?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.