https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191085
Bug ID: 1191085 Summary: CVE-2014-9663 freetype: out-of-bounds read in the tt_cmap4_validate function in sfnt/ttcmap.c 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-2014-9663 to the following issue:
The tt_cmap4_validate function in sfnt/ttcmap.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 validates a certain length field before that field's value is completely calculated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted cmap SFNT table.
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=184 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=9bd20b730...