CVE-2010-2527

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% 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-120

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Affected products

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: FreeType 2.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2-demos.git/commit/?id=b995299b73ba4cd259f221f500d4e63095508bec
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127912955808467&w=2
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30054
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614557
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2-demos.git/commit/?id=b995299b73ba4cd259f221f500d4e63095508bec

Get alerted when CVE-2010-2527 or the next vulnerability affects your stack