https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191083
Bug ID: 1191083 Summary: CVE-2014-9661 freetype: use-after-free in type42/t42parse.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-2014-9661 to the following issue:
type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not consider that scanning can be incomplete without triggering an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font.
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=187 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3788187e0... http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=42fcd6693...