MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-2754

Freetype vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
5.8%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Integer signedness error in truetype/ttgload.c in Freetype 2.3.4 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTF image with a negative n_points value, which leads to an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Freetype
Affected product
Freetype
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2007-05-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Freetype Freetype is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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