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CVE-2015-9382

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% 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 buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token is mishandled in an FT_New_Memory_Face operation.

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/psaux/psobjs.c?id=db5a4a9ae7b0048f033361744421da8569642f73
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45922
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/psaux/psobjs.c?id=db5a4a9ae7b0048f033361744421da8569642f73
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45922
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/

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