CVE-2007-2754
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.8% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2746)
- Published
- May 17, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2746 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freetype / freetype
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc
- http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/freetype2/src/truetype/ttgload.c?root=freetype&r1=1.177&r2=1.178(Patch)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.html(Exploit)
- http://osvdb.org/36509
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25350
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25353
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25386
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25463
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25483
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25609
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25612
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25654
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25705
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25808
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25905
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26129
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26305
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35200
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35204
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35233
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102967-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103171-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200033-1
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-330.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1302
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1334
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-22.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-02.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:121
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_41_freetype2.html
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.018.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0403.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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