Denial of Service Vulnerability in FreeType Font Engine
CVE-2012-5668

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Key Information:

Vendor: Freetype
Status: Freetype
Vendor: CVE Published:; 24 January 2013

What is CVE-2012-5668?

The FreeType Font Engine prior to version 2.4.11 is susceptible to a denial of service, resulting from context-dependent attacks. The vulnerability arises when specific BDF fonts are processed, allowing attackers to exploit improper handling of an allocation error in the bdf_free_font function, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and application crash.

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