VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3311

critical
Published 2011-01-07 · 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
9.3

Description

Integer overflow in base/ftstream.c in libXft (aka the X FreeType library) in FreeType before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Compact Font Format (CFF) font file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an "input stream position error" issue, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1797.

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
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.4.0-1
sid Fixed 2.4.0-1
forky Fixed 2.4.0-1
bullseye Fixed 2.4.0-1
bookworm Fixed 2.4.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
freetypefreetype{"endIncluding":"2.3.12"}
freetypefreetype1.3.1
freetypefreetype2.0.6
freetypefreetype2.0.9
freetypefreetype2.1
freetypefreetype2.1.3
freetypefreetype2.1.4
freetypefreetype2.1.5
freetypefreetype2.1.6
freetypefreetype2.1.7
freetypefreetype2.1.8
freetypefreetype2.1.9
freetypefreetype2.1.10
freetypefreetype2.2.0
freetypefreetype2.2.1
freetypefreetype2.2.10
freetypefreetype2.3.0
freetypefreetype2.3.1
freetypefreetype2.3.2
freetypefreetype2.3.3
freetypefreetype2.3.4
freetypefreetype2.3.5
freetypefreetype2.3.6
freetypefreetype2.3.7
freetypefreetype2.3.8
freetypefreetype2.3.9
freetypefreetype2.3.10
freetypefreetype2.3.11

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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