CVE-2014-9664

medium
Published 2015-02-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9664

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.5.2-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2.5.2-3
debian debianforkyfixed2.5.2-3
debian debiansidfixed2.5.2-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2.5.2-3
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debian7.0affected
fedora fedora20affected
fedora fedora21affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freetypefreetype{"endIncluding":"2.5.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.