Bug 1191095 (CVE-2014-9672)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9672 freetype: Array index error in the parse_fond function in base/ftmac.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mkasik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	freetype 2.5.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	1191102

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-10 12:52:46 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9672 to the following issue:

Array index error in the parse_fond function in base/ftmac.c in FreeType before
2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read)
or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted FOND resource
in a Mac font file.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=155
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=18a8f0d9943369449bc4de92d411c78fb08d616c

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-02-23 19:43:43 UTC

Upstream bug is:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43540

It remains non-public to date.

Issue was fixed upstream in 2.5.4.

Affected code is not built and used in freetype packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.  The code is only used on MacOS platform.

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of freetype as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.