CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5668

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2013-01-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-01-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.

Affected configurations

• freetype freetype (<= 2.4.10) • freetype freetype 1.3.1 • freetype freetype 2.0.0 • freetype freetype 2.0.1 • freetype freetype 2.0.2 • freetype freetype 2.0.3 • freetype freetype 2.0.4 • freetype freetype 2.0.5 • freetype freetype 2.0.6 • freetype freetype 2.0.7 • freetype freetype 2.0.8 • freetype freetype 2.0.9 • freetype freetype 2.1 • freetype freetype 2.1.3 • freetype freetype 2.1.4 • freetype freetype 2.1.5 • freetype freetype 2.1.6 • freetype freetype 2.1.7 • freetype freetype 2.1.8 • freetype freetype 2.1.9 • freetype freetype 2.1.10 • freetype freetype 2.2.0 • freetype freetype 2.2.1 • freetype freetype 2.3.0 • freetype freetype 2.3.1 • freetype freetype 2.3.2 • freetype freetype 2.3.3 • freetype freetype 2.3.4 • freetype freetype 2.3.5 • freetype freetype 2.3.6 • freetype freetype 2.3.7 • freetype freetype 2.3.8 • freetype freetype 2.3.9 • freetype freetype 2.3.10 • freetype freetype 2.3.11 • freetype freetype 2.3.12 • freetype freetype 2.4.0 • freetype freetype 2.4.1 • freetype freetype 2.4.2 • freetype freetype 2.4.3 • freetype freetype 2.4.4 • freetype freetype 2.4.5 • freetype freetype 2.4.6 • freetype freetype 2.4.7 • freetype freetype 2.4.8 • freetype freetype 2.4.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References