CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2498
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
The psh_glyph_find_strong_points function in pshinter/pshalgo.c in FreeType before 2.4.0 does not properly implement hinting masks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file that triggers an invalid free operation.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (< 2.4.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• apple mac os x (< 10.6.5)
• debian debian linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=8d22746c9e5af80ff4304aef440986403a5072e2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613160 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30106 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=8d22746c9e5af80ff4304aef440986403a5072e2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613160 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30106 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory