CVE-2010-2497

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Integer underflow in glyph handling in FreeType before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeType

First reported 14 years ago

2010-08-19 18:00:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-12-19 04:28:00

Affected Software

FreeType 1.3.1

1.3.1

FreeType 2.0.6

2.0.6

FreeType 2.0.9

2.0.9

FreeType 2.1

2.1

FreeType 2.1.3

2.1.3

FreeType 2.1.4

2.1.4

FreeType 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeType 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeType 2.1.7

2.1.7

FreeType 2.1.8

2.1.8

FreeType 2.1.8 rc1

2.1.8_rc1

FreeType 2.1.9

2.1.9

FreeType 2.1.10

2.1.10

FreeType 2.2

2.2

FreeType 2.2.1

2.2.1

FreeType 2.3.0

2.3.0

FreeType 2.3.1

2.3.1

FreeType 2.3.2

2.3.2

FreeType 2.3.3

2.3.3

FreeType 2.3.4

2.3.4

FreeType 2.3.5

2.3.5

FreeType 2.3.6

2.3.6

FreeType 2.3.7

2.3.7

FreeType 2.3.8

2.3.8

FreeType 2.3.9

2.3.9

FreeType 2.3.10

2.3.10

FreeType 2.3.11

2.3.11

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7d3d2cc4fef72c6be9c454b3809c387e12b44cfc

APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1

[freetype] 20100712 FreeType 2.4.0 has been released

Patch

[oss-security] 20100713 Multiple bugs in freetype

[oss-security] 20100714 Re: Multiple bugs in freetype

48951

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435

DSA-2070

MDVSA-2010:137

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613154

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30082

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30083

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