CVE-2014-9659

Description

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
2.866

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
FreeType 2 is a font engine library (USN-2510-1) libfreetype6_2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5_i386.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:0463-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ) freetype2-2.3.7-25.34.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:0463-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ) freetype2-32bit-2.3.7-25.34.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:0463-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ) ft2demos-2.3.7-25.34.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability (CVE-2014-9659)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234