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CVE-2015-9381 (GCVE-0-2015-9381)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-09-03 04:52 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:51
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Summary
FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?45955 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4254 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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