Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-07-30 CWE: CWE-125 Bugzilla: 1741802: CVE-2015-9290 freetype: buffer over-read in function T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-9290 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.2 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | freetype | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | freetype | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | freetype | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | freetype | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | freetype | Under investigation |
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