PT-2019-7249

CVE-2015-9290

Published

2016-01-13

Updated

2019-08-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1

9.8

Critical

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeType versions prior to 2.6.1

Description A buffer over-read issue occurs in the T1 Get Private Dict function within type1/t1parse.c due to a lack of checks on the new values of cur and limit before proceeding. This issue affects FreeType versions prior to 2.6.1.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.1, update to version 2.6.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the T1 Get Private Dict function until a patch is available.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Kcc

Kostya Serebryany

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

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