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CVE-2015-9383

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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 2.6.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in tt_cmap14_validate in sfnt/ttcmap.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• FreeType: before 2.6.2 — fixed in 2.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeType 2.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=57cbb8c148999ba8f14ed53435fc071ac9953afd
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?46346
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=57cbb8c148999ba8f14ed53435fc071ac9953afd
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00002.html
• https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?46346
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/

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