CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1807

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-06-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid "number of axes" field in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a free of arbitrary memory locations, leading to memory corruption.

Affected configurations

• freetype freetype 1.3.1 • freetype freetype 2.3.3 • freetype freetype 2.3.4 • freetype freetype 2.3.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-823 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset weakness

References