Resource Management Errors Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.61% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2380976
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Sept 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Sep 2015

CVE-2014-9745  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freetype to version 2.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a "broken number-with-base" in a Postscript stream, as demonstrated by 8#garbage.

CVSS Scores

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