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CVE-2010-2500

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the gray_render_span function in smooth/ftgrays.c 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.

Affected products

• macOS: before 10.6.5 — fixed in 10.6.5
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04
• Debian Linux: 5.0
• FreeType: before 2.4.0 — fixed in 2.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: macOS 10.6.5; FreeType 2.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6305b869d86ff415a33576df6d43729673c66eee
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html

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