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Vulnerability details: VCID-du6s-p72w-aaaj
Vulnerability ID VCID-du6s-p72w-aaaj
Aliases CVE-2014-9659
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-9659.html
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rhbs high https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191081
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9659
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9659
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2510-1
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
Reference id Reference type URL
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-9659.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2014-9659.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2014-9659
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9659
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2510-1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
1191081 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191081
773084 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773084
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2014-9659 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9659
USN-2510-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2510-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9659
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.84982
EPSS Score 0.02849
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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