CVE-2014-9665: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Load_SBit_Png function in sfnt/pngshim.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 does not restrict the rows and pitch values of PNG data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by embedding a PNG file in a .ttf font file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only; version 15.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 20 only; version 21 only
• FreeType FreeType: up to and including 2.5.3
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.