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critical 9.8

CVE-2014-9766 json

Integer overflow in the create_bits function in pixman-bits-image.c in Pixman before 0.32.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of se…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-9572

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.6%
EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in the create_bits function in pixman-bits-image.c in Pixman before 0.32.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via large height and stride values.

Patch / fix

  • pixman Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.32.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9766

  • pixman Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.30.2-2ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9766

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

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9766 updated cvss 6.8

pixman: integer overflow in create_bits function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pixman, firefox, qpixman, xulrunner, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pixman, firefox, xulrunner, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 pixman, firefox, qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, xulrunner, +5 more
    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

5.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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