Bug 1191084 (CVE-2014-9662) - CVE-2014-9662 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2ft.c
Summary: CVE-2014-9662 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2ft.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-9662
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1191099
Blocks: 1191102
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-10 12:50 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: freetype 2.5.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-20 13:05:23 UTC
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-10 12:50:57 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9662 to the following issue:

cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not validate the return values of
point-allocation functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact
via a crafted OTF font.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=185
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=5f201ab5c24cb69bc96b724fd66e739928d6c5e2
Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-10 12:56:17 UTC 
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1191099]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-02-19 18:01:16 UTC 
freetype-2.5.3-15.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-02-20 08:30:47 UTC 
freetype-2.5.0-9.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2015-02-20 13:05:23 UTC 
Upstream bug is:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43658

Issue was fixed upstream in 2.5.4.

The CFF parsing code affected by this issue was only introduced in upstream version 2.4.12, and enabled by default in 2.5.  The affected code is not in freetype packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and earlier, which are based on earlier upstream versions.

Statement:

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