VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-9664

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-02-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Primary references