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CVE-2018-6942

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 17.10
• FreeType: through 2.9

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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