Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9669 to the following issue: Multiple integer overflows in sfnt/ttcmap.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted cmap SFNT table. http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=163 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=602040b1112c9f94d68e200be59ea7ac3d104565
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1191099]
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.
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.
Upstream bug is: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43588 Issue was fixed upstream in 2.5.4. This CVE covers multiple integer overflow flaws in checks protecting against out-of-bounds reads, making it possible to bypass those check. Crashing freetype using a specially-crafted font file may be possible because of this.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:0696 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html