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CVE-2015-9290 json

In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new…

published 2019-07-30 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-9130

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new values of cur and limit are sensible before going to Again.

Patch / fix

  • freetype freetype 2.6.1
  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.1-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9290

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-2015-9290 updated cvss 6.2

freetype: buffer over-read in function T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 freetype
    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

2.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • savannah.nongnu.org https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45923 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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