CVE-2014-9675

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

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

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=151

Exploit

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7

Issue Tracking

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-3188

Third Party Advisory

MDVSA-2015:055

Third Party Advisory

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

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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