CVE-2015-9290

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9290

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9290.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.6.1-0.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.6.1-0.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.6.1-0.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.6.1-0.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.6.1-0.1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9290.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9290

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