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CVE-2014-9661

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not consider that scanning can be incomplete without triggering an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 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
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.6.z, 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html
• http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=187
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3788187e0c396952cd7d905c6c61f3ff8e84b2b4
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=42fcd6693ec7bd6ffc65ddc63e74287a65dda669
• 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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134396/FreeType-2.5.3-Type42-Parsing-Use-After-Free.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.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

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