CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6942
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (<= 2.9)
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html www.oracle.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html www.oracle.com