CVE-2010-2541

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% 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

Buffer overflow in ftmulti.c in the ftmulti demo program in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows 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
FreeType: before 2.4.2 — fixed in 2.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeType 2.4.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.2
http://secunia.com/advisories/40982
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024266
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.2/NEWS/view
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-972-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2106
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617342
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.2

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