CVE-2015-9383 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-9383?

CVE-2015-9383 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Sep 2019. 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

FreeType before 2.6.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in tt_cmap14_validate in sfnt/ttcmap.c.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-9383?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freetype Freetype.

How do I fix CVE-2015-9383?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-9383 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-9383 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9383, GHSA-5qxc-8vc2-mr95, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9383, USN-4126-1.