| Name | CVE-2014-9659 |
| Description | cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240. |
| 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 | 773084, 777656 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| 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.
Notes
[wheezy] - freetype <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present and thus incomplete fix not applied as well)
[squeeze] - freetype <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present and thus incomplete fix not applied as well)
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43661
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
CVE due to incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240