What is CVE-2015-9383?

CVE-2015-9383 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-2015-9383?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Freetype

CVE-2015-9383

FreeType before 2.6.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in tt_cmap14_validate in sfnt/ttcmap.c.

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freetype
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/ (Patch)
savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4126-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9383?: CVE-2015-9383 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-2015-9383?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.