THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2010-2806
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-2806

Freetype vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
5.8%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Array index error in the t42_parse_sfnts function in type42/t42parse.c in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via negative size values for certain strings in FontType42 font files, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Freetype
Affected product
Freetype
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-129 — Improper Validation of Array Index
Published
2010-08-19

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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