CVE-2012-5668: freetype

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-5668 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in freetype. EPSS estimates a 2.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 24-01-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.