CVE-2010-3311

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in base/ftstream.c in libXft (aka the X FreeType library) in FreeType before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Compact Font Format (CFF) font file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an "input stream position error" issue, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1797.

Affected products

FreeType: through 2.3.12; 1.3.1, 2.0.6, 2.0.9, 2.1, 2.1.3, 2.1.4 (+22)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2116
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:201
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0864.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43700
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1013-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623625
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0736.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0737.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951

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