CVE-2010-2541

medium

Published 2010-08-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Buffer overflow in ftmulti.c in the ftmulti demo program in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.04	Affected	—
9.10	Affected	—
9.04	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—
6.06	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.4.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.4.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.4.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.4.2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.4.2-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
freetype	freetype	`{"endExcluding":"2.4.2"}`	`2.4.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-120

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.