CVE-2014-2240 (GCVE-0-2014-2240)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-12 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the cf2_hintmap_build function in cff/cf2hints.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of stem hints in a font file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://secunia.com/advisories/57291 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029895 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2148-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/57447 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.freetype.org/index.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/fr… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66074 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Date Public
2014-03-08 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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