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CVE-2014-9745 json

The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop)…

published 2015-09-14 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9551

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a "broken number-with-base" in a Postscript stream, as demonstrated by 8#garbage.

Patch / fix

  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9745

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9745

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 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.41.4
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.41.4

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:1149-1

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-2014-9745 updated cvss 2.1

freetype: Infinite loop in parse_encoding in t1load.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

3.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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