Is CVE-2014-9664 actively exploited?

CVE-2014-9664 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-04-12.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-9664?

CVE-2014-9664 has a CVSS score of 6.8 (UNKNOWN severity). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P.

How do I patch CVE-2014-9664?

Patch guidance is available from redhat security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2014-9664.

CVE-2014-9664 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2014-9664?

24 products: redhat enterprise linux desktop, redhat enterprise linux desktop, redhat enterprise linux hpc node, redhat enterprise linux hpc node, redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus, and 19 more.

Description

FreeType before 2.5.4 does not check for the end of the data during certain parsing actions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Type42 font, related to type42/t42parse.c and type1/t1load.c.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector: network
Access Cmplx: medium
Auth: none
Confidentiality: partial
Integrity: partial
Availability: partial
Weaknesses: CWE-119 · Memory Buffer Errors

Metadata

Primary Vendor: REDHAT
Published: 2/8/2015
Last Modified: 4/12/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

redhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : enterprise_linux_hpc_noderedhat : enterprise_linux_hpc_noderedhat : enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eusredhat : enterprise_linux_serverredhat : enterprise_linux_serverredhat : enterprise_linux_server_eusredhat : enterprise_linux_server_eusredhat : enterprise_linux_workstationredhat : enterprise_linux_workstationdebian : debian_linuxopensuse : opensuseopensuse : opensusecanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxcanonical : ubuntu_linuxfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafreetype : freetypeoracle : solarisoracle : solaris

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD