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CVE-2010-2520

Published: 19/08/2010 Updated: 23/03/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 462
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ins_IUP function in truetype/ttinterp.c in FreeType prior to 2.4.0, when TrueType bytecode support is enabled, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

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Ubuntu Security Notice: freetype vulnerabilities
Robert Święcki discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges ...

References

CWE-787http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=888cd1843e935fe675cf2ac303116d4ed5b9d54bhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30361http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613198http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.htmlhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435http://secunia.com/advisories/48951https://usn.ubuntu.com/963-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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