[Bug 1191086] New: CVE-2014-9664 freetype: out-of-bounds read via a crafted Type42 font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191086

            Bug ID: 1191086
           Summary: CVE-2014-9664 freetype: out-of-bounds read via a
                    crafted Type42 font
           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-2014-9664 to the following
issue:

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain
parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=183
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=73be9f9ab67842cfbec36ee99e8d2301434c84ca
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=dd89710f0f643eb0f99a3830e0712d26c7642acd

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