Name | CVE-2014-2241 |
Description | The (1) cf2_initLocalRegionBuffer and (2) cf2_initGlobalRegionBuffer functions in cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 do not properly check if a subroutine exists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure), as demonstrated by a crafted ttf file. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 741299 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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freetype (PTS) | bullseye | 2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.13.3+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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freetype | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
freetype | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
freetype | source | (unstable) | 2.5.2-1.1 | | | 741299 |
Notes
[wheezy] - freetype <not-affected> (vuln. code introduced around 2.5)
[squeeze] - freetype <not-affected> (vuln. code introduced around 2.5)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.5.3/
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697#comment2 if I understood it right