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7.5
HIGH CVSS 2.0
CVE-2014-9659
FreeType OpenType Font Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description

cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted OpenType font. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 8, 2015, 11:59 a.m.

Last Modified :

April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-9659 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Opensuse opensuse
1 Oracle solaris
1 Freetype freetype
: Total Affected Vendor : 5 | Products : 5
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in FreeType can lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • Update the FreeType package.
  • Reboot the system if required.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2014-9659.

URL Resource
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 Exploit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 Exploit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2014-9659 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2014-9659 weaknesses.

CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-42: MIME Conversion MIME Conversion CAPEC-44: Overflow Binary Resource File Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-100: Overflow Buffers Overflow Buffers CAPEC-123: Buffer Manipulation Buffer Manipulation

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2014-9659 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2014-9659 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190
    Added Reference http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
    Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 30, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 30, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 22, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Configuration 3 OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 4 OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 3 OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 4 OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 5 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 No Types Assigned http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html No Types Assigned http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 No Types Assigned http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=2cdc4562f873237f1c77d43540537c7a721d3fd8 Vendor Advisory, Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html No Types Assigned http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 No Types Assigned http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html No Types Assigned http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 25, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 29, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Configuration 3 OR *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 4 OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 16, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 03, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 24, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 27, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 27, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 09, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Changed Reference Type http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 No Types Assigned http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=190 Exploit
    Added CWE CWE-119
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 09, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

2.85 }} -4.60%

score

0.84979

percentile