CVE-2014-9675 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9675?

CVE-2014-9675 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

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 identifies property names by only verifying that an initial substring is present, which allows remote attackers to discover heap pointer values and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted BDF font.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9675?

It affects 11 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2014-9675?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-9675 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9675 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-2014-9675, GHSA-gp42-2rqf-vfq6, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9675.