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LIN7-2991 : Security Advisory - freetype - CVE-2014-9660

Created: Feb 25, 2015    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 11, 2015
Found In Version: 7.0
Fix Version: 7.0.0.4
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly handle a missing ENDCHAR record, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BDF font.<a href=http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html>CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference</a>

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9660

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