| Name | CVE-2014-9665 |
| Description | The Load_SBit_Png function in sfnt/pngshim.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not restrict the rows and pitch values of PNG data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by embedding a PNG file in a .ttf font file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-185-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 777656 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| freetype (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.5.2-3+deb8u6 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.6.3-3.2+deb9u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.6.3-3.2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster | 2.9.1-3+deb10u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster (lts) | 2.9.1-3+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.13.3+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - freetype <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[squeeze] - freetype <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=168
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=54abd22891bd51ef8b533b24df53b3019b5cee81
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b3500af717010137046ec4076d1e1c0641e33727