Denial of Service Vulnerability in FreeType's parse_encoding Function

CVE-2014-9745 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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