CVE-2014-9662

high

Description

cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not validate the return values of point-allocation functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted OTF font.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-9472

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=5f201ab5c24cb69bc96b724fd66e739928d6c5e2

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=185

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-02-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04321