freetype: off-by-one buffer over-read in parse_charstrings() / t42_parse_charstrings()
Published Feb 8, 2015
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.27%
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- 6.0
- 7.0
- 6
- 7.0
- 7.1
- 6.0
- 7.0
- 6.6.z
- 7.1
- 6.0
- 7.0
Configuration 2
- 7.0
Configuration 4
- 10.04
- 12.04
- 14.04
- 14.10
- 15.04
Configuration 5
- 20
- 21
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
freetype-0:2.3.11-15.el6_6.1
Fixed · RHSA-2015:0696
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
freetype-0:2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1
Fixed · RHSA-2015:0696
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
freetype
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
freetype
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3
mingw-virt-viewer
Affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | freetype-0:2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:0696 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | freetype-0:2.4.11-10.ael7b_1.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:0696 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | freetype | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | freetype | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 4.27% (0.04266) | 90.77th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.27% (0.04266) | 89.76th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 1.13% (0.01130) | 76.36th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 4.39% (0.04389) | 81.28th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.13% (0.01130) | 76.83th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.49% (0.01487) | 87.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 6, 2024 | 1.33% (0.01328) | 85.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.33% (0.01328) | 83.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.41% (0.03407) | 84.65th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.41% (0.03407) | 83.10th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.41% (0.03407) | 66.20th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (19)
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183 x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9664 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191086 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9664
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9664
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