CVE-2012-1142

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid heap write operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted glyph-outline data in a font.

Affected products

FreeType: through 2.4.8; 1.3.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4 (+38)
Mozilla Firefox for Android: through 10.0.3; 1.0, 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta2, 4.0-beta3, 4.0-beta4 (+10)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00015.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0467.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48300
http://secunia.com/advisories/48508
http://secunia.com/advisories/48758
http://secunia.com/advisories/48797
http://secunia.com/advisories/48822
http://secunia.com/advisories/48918

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