CVE-2010-2497
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.6%EU EUVD
Integer underflow in glyph handling in FreeType before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-191
- EPSS score
- 5.6% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2501)
- Published
- August 19, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2501 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- debian / debian linux
- freetype / freetype
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Apple Mac OS X 10.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0536-2010 - archived
- Apple Mac OS X v10.3.6 and Apple Mac OS X Server V10.3.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0086-2005 - archived
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7d3d2cc4fef72c6be9c454b3809c387e12b44cfc(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613154(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30082(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30083(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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