https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191086
Bug ID: 1191086 Summary: CVE-2014-9664 freetype: out-of-bounds read via a crafted Type42 font Product: Security Response Component: vulnerability Keywords: Security Severity: medium Priority: medium Assignee: security-response-team@redhat.com Reporter: vkaigoro@redhat.com CC: behdad@fedoraproject.org, fonts-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org, kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org, mkasik@redhat.com
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9664 to the following issue:
FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab... http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0...