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CVE-2012-4190

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The FT2FontEntry::CreateFontEntry function in FreeType, as used in the Android build of Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1 on CyanogenMod 10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Cyanogenmod: 10
• Mozilla Firefox: through 16.0; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+162)

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-88.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027653
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790139
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79208
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-88.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027653
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790139
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79208

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