CVE-2010-3814

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ins_SHZ function in ttinterp.c in FreeType 2.4.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted SHZ bytecode instruction, related to TrueType opcodes, as demonstrated by a PDF document with a crafted embedded font.

Affected products

FreeType: through 2.4.3; 1.3.1, 2.0.6, 2.0.9, 2.1, 2.1.3, 2.1.4 (+26)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602221
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=0edf0986f3be570f5bf90ff245a85c1675f5c9a4
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
http://secunia.com/advisories/43138
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3814
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2155
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:236

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