[Bug 1191083] New: CVE-2014-9661 freetype: use-after-free in type42/t42parse.c

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191083

            Bug ID: 1191083
           Summary: CVE-2014-9661 freetype: use-after-free in
                    type42/t42parse.c
           Product: Security Response
         Component: vulnerability
          Keywords: Security
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: security-response-team(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: vkaigoro(a)redhat.com
                CC: behdad(a)fedoraproject.org,
                    fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org, mkasik(a)redhat.com



Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9661 to the following
issue:

type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not consider that scanning can
be incomplete without triggering an error, which allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a crafted Type42 font.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=187
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=378818...
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=42fcd6...

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