CVE-2014-9766

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the create_bits function in pixman-bits-image.c in Pixman before 0.32.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via large height and stride values.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04
The pixman Project pixman: through 0.32.5

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3525
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/15
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2918-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69014
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972647
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/commit/?id=857e40f3d2bc2cfb714913e0cd7e6184cf69aca3
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pixman/2014-April/003244.html
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-July/002452.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3525
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/13

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