CVE-2014-9671 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9671?

CVE-2014-9671 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Feb 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Off-by-one error in the pcf_get_properties function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PCF file with a 0xffffffff size value that is improperly incremented.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9671?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freetype Freetype, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9671?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-9671 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9671 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9671, GHSA-85hg-37rw-9w7v, SUSE-RU-2015:1021-1, SUSE-RU-2015:1239-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9671.