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CVE-2014-9656

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The tt_sbit_decoder_load_image function in sfnt/ttsbit.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly check for an integer overflow, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted OpenType font.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
• FreeType: through 2.5.3
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html
• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=196
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=f0292bb9920aa1dbfed5f53861e7c7a89b35833a
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1

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