CVE-2014-9659

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.7% 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

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
FreeType: through 2.5.3
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 10.0, 11.2

References

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html

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