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CVE-2012-5668
FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 16% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 1027921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.freetype.org/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37905 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1686-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0189 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121224 Re: CVE Request - Multiple security fixes in freetype - 2.4.11 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SSA:2013-015-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 51900 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=9b6b5754b57c12b820e01305eb69b8863a161e5a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51826 (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-2012-5551 (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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