CVE-2014-9675 | BDVDB-2026-67947 Detail
Description#
bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3188
- http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=151
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0083.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2c4832d30939b45c05757f0a05128ce64c4cacc7
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.