CVE-2014-9659 Information

Description

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

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