[Bug 1191082] New: CVE-2014-9660 freetype: NULL pointer dereference in the _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c
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Tue Feb 10 12:50:37 UTC 2015
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191082
Bug ID: 1191082
Summary: CVE-2014-9660 freetype: NULL pointer dereference in
the _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.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-2014-9660 to the following
issue:
The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does
not
properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to
cause
a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified
other impact via a crafted BDF font.
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=188
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=af8346172a7b573715134f7a51e6c5c60fa7f2ab
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