[Bug 1191084] New: CVE-2014-9662 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow in cff/cf2ft.c

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191084

            Bug ID: 1191084
           Summary: CVE-2014-9662 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow in
                    cff/cf2ft.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-2014-9662 to the following
issue:

cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not validate the return values of
point-allocation functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact
via a crafted OTF font.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=185
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=5f201ab5c24cb69bc96b724fd66e739928d6c5e2

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