GLSA-202402-06 : FreeType: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189970

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202402-06 (FreeType: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeType. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All FreeType users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-libs/freetype-2.13.0

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 189970

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202402-06.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2024

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:freetype

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27404, CVE-2022-27405, CVE-2022-27406

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