PT-2015-4378
CVE-2014-9745
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Published
2014-03-11
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Updated
2018-10-30
Description by
CVSS 2.0
5.0
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
FreeType versions prior to 2.5.3
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by providing a "broken number-with-base" in a Postscript stream. This can be demonstrated with input such as '8#garbage'.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 2.5.3, update to version 2.5.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the parse encoding function to prevent the infinite loop.
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