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CVE-2014-2241

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The (1) cf2_initLocalRegionBuffer and (2) cf2_initGlobalRegionBuffer functions in cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 do not properly check if a subroutine exists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure), as demonstrated by a crafted ttf file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 13.10
• FreeType: through 2.5.2; 2.5, 2.5.1

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=135c3faebb96f8f550bd4f318716f2e1e095a969
• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57447
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/12/4
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2148-1
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=135c3faebb96f8f550bd4f318716f2e1e095a969
• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57447
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/12/4
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2148-1

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