CVE-2014-9674

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The Mac_Read_POST_Resource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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

Oracle Solaris 11.2

11.2

Fedora 20

20

Fedora 21

21

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0

7.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6.0

6.0

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

References

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

Third Party Advisory

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153

Exploit

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e

Patch, Vendor Advisory

FEDORA-2015-2237

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2015-2216

Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:0627

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0696

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3461

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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