CVE-2014-2240

CVE-2014-2240

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 7.0%
exploitation probability
7.0%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697http://secunia.com/advisories/57291http://secunia.com/advisories/57447http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.5.3http://www.freetype.org/index.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66074http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029895http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2148-1