CVE-2018-6942

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.

References

Advisories
More

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-13

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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