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CVE-2014-9664
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…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 4.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3188 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201503-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 72986 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2739-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0627 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-2216 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:055 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- USN-2510-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-2237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-9474 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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