https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191082
Bug ID: 1191082 Summary: CVE-2014-9660 freetype: NULL pointer dereference in the _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.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-2014-9660 to the following issue:
The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BDF font.
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=188 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=af8346172...