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high 7.5

CVE-2014-9659 json

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been compu…

published 2015-02-08 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9469

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.7%
EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.

Patch / fix

  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.2-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9659

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9659

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freetype2 SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 2.5.3-5.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 2.5.3-5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0455-1

  • ft2demos openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.7-1.1
  • freetype2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.7-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10172-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10438-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9659 updated cvss 6.8

freetype: stack-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • code.google.com http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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