ubuntu-cve-2015-9290
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-07-30 13:15
Modified
2025-07-16 04:51
Summary
Details

In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new values of cur and limit are sensible before going to Again.

Severity

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "freetype2-demos",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "freetype2-demos-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libfreetype6",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libfreetype6-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libfreetype6-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libfreetype6-udeb",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "freetype",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/freetype@2.8.1-2ubuntu2?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.1-2ubuntu2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.8-0.2ubuntu2",
        "2.8.1-0.1ubuntu2",
        "2.8.1-0.1ubuntu3",
        "2.8.1-2ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new values of cur and limit are sensible before going to Again.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9290",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:51:04Z",
  "published": "2019-07-30T13:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9290"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/src/type1/t1parse.c?id=e3058617f384cb6709f3878f753fa17aca9e3a30"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45923"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9290"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2015-9290"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:21Z"
}



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