6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-2805

Published: 19/08/2010 Updated: 06/04/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The FT_Stream_EnterFrame function in base/ftstream.c in FreeType prior to 2.4.2 does not properly validate certain position values, which 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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Vendor Advisories

It was 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 cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeType font library The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-1797 Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the cff_decoder_parse_charstrings function in the CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter in cff/cffgloadc in FreeType allow remote at ...