Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.5.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.25% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2380975
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-9661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freetype to version 2.5.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) 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.

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