CVE-2014-2977

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in the Dispatch_Write function in proxy/dispatcher/idirectfbsurface_dispatcher.c in DirectFB 1.4.13 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the Voodoo interface, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Directfb: 1.4.13
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html
http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/58448
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:223
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/9
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-55
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html
http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html

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