Name: CVE-2014-2978: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2014-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2014-2978, CWE-119, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.08143

The Dispatch_Write function in proxy/dispatcher/idirectfbsurface_dispatcher.c in DirectFB 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the Voodoo interface, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade dev-libs/DirectFB.	Oct 30, 2017	Jun 11, 2014
Suse	—	Upgrade DirectFBUpgrade libdirectfb-1_7-1Upgrade lib++dfb-1_7-1Upgrade lib++dfb-develUpgrade libdirectfb-1_7-1-32bitUpgrade DirectFB-devel	Dec 18, 2015	Jun 11, 2014

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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