CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2541
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-120
Description
Buffer overflow in ftmulti.c in the ftmulti demo program in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (< 2.4.2)
• 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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.2 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40982 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.2/NEWS/view Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-972-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2106 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019 Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617342 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.2 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40982 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951 Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.2/NEWS/view Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-972-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2106 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019 Issue Tracking, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617342 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory