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CVE-2014-9675

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF 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: 6.0, 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=151
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7
• 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/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

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