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CVE-2006-2661

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-05-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

ftutil.c in Freetype before 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted font file that triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 5.04, 5.10, 6.06
• Debian Linux: 3.0, 3.1
• FreeType: before 2.2 — fixed in 2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeType 2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0012.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20525
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20591
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20638
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20791
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21062
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21135
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21385
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21701
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23939
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016520

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