[Bug 1191079] New: CVE-2014-9657 freetype: DoS in the tt_face_load_hdmx function in truetype/ttpload.c

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            Bug ID: 1191079
           Summary: CVE-2014-9657 freetype: DoS in the tt_face_load_hdmx
                    function in truetype/ttpload.c
           Product: Security Response
         Component: vulnerability
          Keywords: Security
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: security-response-team at redhat.com
          Reporter: vkaigoro at redhat.com
                CC: behdad at fedoraproject.org,
                    fonts-bugs at lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org, mkasik at redhat.com



Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned CVE-2014-9657 to the following
issue:

The tt_face_load_hdmx function in truetype/ttpload.c in FreeType before 2.5.4
does not establish a minimum record size, which allows remote attackers to
cause
a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a crafted TrueType font.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=195
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=eca0f067068020870a429fe91f6329e499390d55

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