CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-9660

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 08, 2015 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BDF font.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 (including) 13.1 (including)
Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 (including) 13.2 (including)
Freetype Ubuntu devel *
Freetype Ubuntu lucid *
Freetype Ubuntu precise *
Freetype Ubuntu trusty *
Freetype Ubuntu upstream *
Freetype Ubuntu utopic *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat freetype-0:2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat freetype-0:2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1 *

Potential Mitigations

References