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CVE-2010-2527
Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.6% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- USN-963-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614557 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [freetype] 20100712 FreeType 2.4.0 has been released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-2070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2-demos.git/commit/?id=b995299b73ba4cd259f221f500d4e63095508bec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1024266 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100714 Re: Multiple bugs in freetype (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0578 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0577 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30054 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 48951 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2531 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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