CVE-2014-9661

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-416: Use After Free

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.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2015-02-08 11:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS

10.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10

14.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04

15.04

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0

7.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7.0

7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0

7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0

7.0

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Fedora 20

20

Fedora 21

21

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=187

Exploit

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3788187e0c396952cd7d905c6c61f3ff8e84b2b4

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=42fcd6693ec7bd6ffc65ddc63e74287a65dda669

FEDORA-2015-2237

FEDORA-2015-2216

openSUSE-SU-2015:0627

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134396/FreeType-2.5.3-Type42-Parsing-Use-After-Free.html

RHSA-2015:0696

DSA-3188

MDVSA-2015:055

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

72986

USN-2510-1

USN-2739-1

GLSA-201503-05

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