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CVE-2014-9664 json

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denia…

published 2015-02-08 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9474

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9664

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9664

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

  • freetype RHEL 6 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1
  • freetype RHEL 7 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1
  • freetype RHEL 7 2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1
  • freetype-demos RHEL 6 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1
  • freetype-demos RHEL 7 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1
  • freetype-demos RHEL 7 2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0696

  • 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-2014-9664 updated cvss 2.6

freetype: off-by-one buffer over-read in parse_charstrings() / t42_parse_charstrings()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) freetype 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) freetype-demos 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) freetype 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) freetype-demos 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) freetype 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) freetype-demos 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1
    +10 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) freetype 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) freetype-demos 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) freetype 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) freetype 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1, freetype 2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) freetype-demos 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) freetype-demos 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1, freetype-demos 2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) freetype 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) freetype 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) freetype-demos 2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) freetype-demos 2.4.11-10.el7_1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0696

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Exploit prediction

4.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% 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=183 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/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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