Denial of Service Vulnerability in FreeType Font Rendering
CVE-2012-5670

Currently unrated

Key Information:

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

What is CVE-2012-5670?

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType versions prior to 2.4.11 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack, which can be exploited by context-dependent attackers. The vulnerability is triggered through specific vectors involving BDF fonts where the ENCODING field contains a negative value. This misconfiguration may lead to an out-of-bounds write and ultimately crash the application, posing significant risks to systems reliant on this font-rendering library.

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