Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9673 to the following issue: Integer signedness error in the Mac_Read_POST_Resource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Mac font. http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=154 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=35252ae9aa1dd9343e9f4884e9ddb1fee10ef415
(Private) upstream bug: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43539 Issue was fixed upstream in 2.5.4. This issue was reported as being a flaw in the boundary check added to fix CVE-2010-2808 (see bug 621907) by using negative rlen value. However, the check can not be reached with negative rlen, see: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=154#c6 There is another signedness issue in the part of the function that computes the amount of memory needed to store font resources. Negative resource length value can lead to insufficient buffer allocation. However, this issue is closely related to what was reported as CVE-2014-9674 (bug 1191190). The boundary between the issues, and whether they need/should to be treated as separate CVEs is not obvious. Complete upstream fix that was applied to address these two issues is noted in bug 1191190 comment 4.
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