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CVE-2014-9674
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2015-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
The Mac_Read_POST_Resource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font.
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
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0, 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=153
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=240c94a185cd8dae7d03059abec8a5662c35ecd3
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cd4a5a26e591d01494567df9dec7f72d59551f6e
- 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461
- 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
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