CVE-2014-2978

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2014-2978 · Published 11/06/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-2978 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting directfb (directfb).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.1%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
directfb directfb	`= 1.4.4`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0176.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00003.html
mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2014-March/006805.html
secunia.com/advisories/58448
mandriva.com/security/advisories
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/10
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-55

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