Out-of-bounds Read Affecting freetype package, versions <2.5.2-3+deb8u3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.62% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-FREETYPE-455988
- published 30 Jul 2019
- disclosed 30 Jul 2019
Introduced: 30 Jul 2019
CVE-2015-9290 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
freetype
to version 2.5.2-3+deb8u3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freetype
package and not the freetype
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new values of cur and limit are sensible before going to Again.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9290
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38315305
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38315305?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00019.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/type1/t1parse.c?id=e3058617f384cb6709f3878f753fa17aca9e3a30
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45923
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38315305?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS