Is CVE-2010-2498 being actively exploited?

CVE-2010-2498 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2010-2498?

CVE-2010-2498 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 6.8 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2010-2498

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.6%EU EUVD

The psh_glyph_find_strong_points function in pshinter/pshalgo.c in FreeType before 2.4.0 does not properly implement hinting masks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file that triggers an invalid free operation.

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-787
EPSS score: 5.6% (93th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2010-2502)
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-2010-2502 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

apple / mac os x
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
canonical / ubuntu linux
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=8d22746c9e5af80ff4304aef440986403a5072e2(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://securitytracker.com/id?1024266(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
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)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613160(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30106(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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