CVE-2014-9662 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=185 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=5f201ab5c24cb69bc96b724fd66e739928d6c5e2 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.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05