CVE-2014-9660

Description

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BDF font.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

4.849

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
FreeType 2 is a font engine library (USN-2510-1) libfreetype6_2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb	Linux
(RHSA-2015:0696) Important: freetype security update freetype-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2015:0696) Important: freetype security update freetype-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2015:0696) Important: freetype security update freetype-demos-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2015:0696) Important: freetype security update freetype-devel-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2015:0696) Important: freetype security update freetype-devel-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

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