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CVE-2015-9381

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• FreeType: before 2.6.1 — fixed in 2.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeType 2.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/type1/t1parse.c?id=7962a15d64c876870ca0ae435ea2467d9be268d9
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45955
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/type1/t1parse.c?id=7962a15d64c876870ca0ae435ea2467d9be268d9
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45955
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/

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