SB2019100313 - Denial of service in FreeType library in F5 Traffix SDC
Published: October 3, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019100313
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9290)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the T1_Get_Private_Dict() function in type1/t1parse.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted font, trick the victim into loading it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the application.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.