CVE-2014-2241 (GCVE-0-2014-2241)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-03-18 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The (1) cf2_initLocalRegionBuffer and (2) cf2_initGlobalRegionBuffer functions in cff/cf2ft.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 do not properly check if a subroutine exists, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure), as demonstrated by a crafted ttf file.
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