Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.3.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.17% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2380959
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jun 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-1807  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freetype to version 2.3.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid "number of axes" field in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a free of arbitrary memory locations, leading to memory corruption.

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