CVE-2014-9668 (GCVE-0-2014-9668)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-08 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:55
VLAI
Summary
The woff_open_font function in sfnt/sfobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with offset+length calculations without restricting length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Web Open Font Format (WOFF) file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetyp… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2014-12-06 00:00
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