Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.5.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2380999
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-9675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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 Access Restriction Bypass bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

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