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UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9290 (CVE-2015-9290)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2019-07-30 13:15 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:51 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

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

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9290	REPORT
	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetyp…	REPORT
	https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45923	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9290	REPORT

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CVE-2015-9290 (GCVE-0-2015-9290)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-30 12:36 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:43

Summary

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

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

5 references

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http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetyp…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38315305	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38315305?utm_…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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