CVE-2009-0946

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in FreeType 2.3.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to large values in certain inputs in (1) smooth/ftsmooth.c, (2) sfnt/ttcmap.c, and (3) cff/cffload.c.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: from 1.0.0 through 2.2.1
macOS: from 10.6.0 through 10.6.4; 10.4.11, 10.5.8
Apple Mac Os X Server: from 10.6.0 through 10.6.4; 10.4.11, 10.5.8
Apple Safari: 4.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
FreeType: through 2.3.9
Opensuse: 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10, 11

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=0545ec1ca36b27cb928128870a83e5f668980bc5
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=79972af4f0485a11dcb19551356c45245749fc5b
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a18788b14db60ae3673f932249cd02d33a227c4e
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34723
http://secunia.com/advisories/34913
http://secunia.com/advisories/34967

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