CVE-2014-9671

Enterprise Linux Desktop vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Redhat

Affected product

Enterprise Linux Desktop

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2015-02-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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