CVE-2010-2497

high

Description

Integer underflow in glyph handling in FreeType before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

References

Advisories

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613154

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070

http://secunia.com/advisories/48951

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7d3d2cc4fef72c6be9c454b3809c387e12b44cfc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-08-19

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02089

Detections

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