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LIN7-58 : Security Advisory - freetype - CVE-2014-2241

Created: May 14, 2014 Updated: Mar 31, 2016

Resolved Date: Jun 5, 2014

Found In Version: 7.0.0.0.LB09

Fix Version: 7.0

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7

Component/s: Userspace

Description

The (1) cf2_initLocalRegionBuffer and (2) cf2_initGlobalRegionBuffer functions in cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 do not properly check if a subroutine exists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure), as demonstrated by a crafted ttf file.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-2241