Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-9747 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The t42_parse_encoding function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly update the current position for immediates-only mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a Type42 font.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2581.NASL description According to the versions of the freetype packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-19 plugin id 132298 published 2019-12-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132298 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2019-2581) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(132298); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/07"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2014-9745", "CVE-2014-9747", "CVE-2015-9381", "CVE-2015-9382", "CVE-2015-9383" ); script_name(english:"EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2019-2581)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to the versions of the freetype packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a 'broken number-with-base' in a Postscript stream, as demonstrated by 8#garbage.(CVE-2014-9745) - The t42_parse_encoding function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly update the current position for immediates-only mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a Type42 font.(CVE-2014-9747) - FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.(CVE-2015-9381) - FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token is mishandled in an FT_New_Memory_Face operation.(CVE-2015-9382) - FreeType before 2.6.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in tt_cmap14_validate in sfnt/ttcmap.c.(CVE-2015-9383) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues."); # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2581 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?649f9ba2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected freetype packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:freetype"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:freetype-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/sp"); script_exclude_keys("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS"); if (release !~ "^EulerOS release 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0"); sp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/sp"); if (isnull(sp) || sp !~ "^(3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3"); uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); if (!empty_or_null(uvp)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3", "EulerOS UVP " + uvp); if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = ["freetype-2.4.11-10_1.1.h7", "freetype-devel-2.4.11-10_1.1.h7"]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", sp:"3", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "freetype"); }
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1491.NASL description According to the versions of the freetype package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The t42_parse_encoding function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly update the current position for immediates-only mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a Type42 font.(CVE-2014-9747) - FreeType before 2.6.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in tt_cmap14_validate in sfnt/ttcmap.c.(CVE-2015-9383) - FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token is mishandled in an FT_New_Memory_Face operation.(CVE-2015-9382) - FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.(CVE-2015-9381) - 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.(CVE-2015-9290) - The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-16 plugin id 135653 published 2020-04-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135653 title EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2020-1491) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1224.NASL description According to the versions of the freetype package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The t42_parse_encoding function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly update the current position for immediates-only mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a Type42 font.(CVE-2014-9747) - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-13 plugin id 134513 published 2020-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134513 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2020-1224) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-319.NASL description Sergey Gorbaty reported issues related to the FreeType font engine. FreeType improperly handled certain malformed font files, allowing remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service when specially crafted font files were used. For Debian 6 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2015-10-01 plugin id 86211 published 2015-10-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86211 title Debian DLA-319-1 : freetype security update NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3370.NASL description It was discovered that FreeType did not properly handle some malformed inputs. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted font files. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 86304 published 2015-10-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86304 title Debian DSA-3370-1 : freetype - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-1149-1.NASL description This update of the freetype2 library fixes two security issues : - An infinite loop in parse_encoding in t1load.c (CVE-2014-9745, bsc#945849) - Use of uninitialized memory in ps_parser_load_field, t42_parse_font_matrix and t1_parse_font_matrix (CVE-2014-9747, bsc#947966) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90758 published 2016-04-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90758 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2016:1149-1) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2514.NASL description According to the versions of the freetype packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-04 plugin id 131667 published 2019-12-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131667 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2019-2514) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2015-639.NASL description This update of the freetype2 library fixes two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2014-9745: Infinite loop in parse_encoding in t1load.c (bsc#945849) - CVE-2014-9747: Use of uninitialized memory in ps_parser_load_field, t42_parse_font_matrix and t1_parse_font_matrix (bsc#947966) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-10-12 plugin id 86336 published 2015-10-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86336 title openSUSE Security Update : freetype2 (openSUSE-2015-639) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2148.NASL description According to the versions of the freetype packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The t42_parse_encoding function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not properly update the current position for immediates-only mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a Type42 font.(CVE-2014-9747) - The parse_encoding function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-11-12 plugin id 130857 published 2019-11-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130857 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : freetype (EulerOS-SA-2019-2148)
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/type42/t42parse.c?id=8b281f83e8516535756f92dbf90940ac44bd45e1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3370
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/11/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/25/4
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41309