CVE-2014-9671

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Off-by-one error in the pcf_get_properties function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PCF file with a 0xffffffff size value that is improperly incremented.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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

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

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

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

Oracle Solaris 11.2

11.2

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

References

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

Third Party Advisory

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=157

Exploit

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=0e2f5d518c60e2978f26400d110eff178fa7e3c3

Patch, Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:0627

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0696

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3188

Third Party Advisory

MDVSA-2015:055

Broken Link

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

Third Party Advisory

72986

USN-2510-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-2739-1

Third Party Advisory

GLSA-201503-05

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