MGASA-2014-0130

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    MGASA-2014-0130

    Published: 15 Mar 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated freetype2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: It was reported that Freetype before 2.5.3 suffers from an out-of-bounds stack-based read/write flaw in cf2_hintmap_build() in the CFF rasterizing code, which could lead to a buffer overflow (CVE-2014-2240). It was also reported that Freetype before 2.5.3 has a denial-of-service vulnerability in the CFF rasterizing code, due to a reachable assertion (CVE-2014-2241).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0130.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12986, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074646, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741299

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: freetype2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/freetype2?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.0.1-3.1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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