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CVE-2010-3053· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted BDF font file,

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 18/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.7% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 77.9% of all records.
  • Fixed version: freetype (Debian:12) 2.4.2-1; freetype (Debian:5.0) 2.3.7-2+lenny3; freetype2 (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 2.7-1.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to freetype (Debian:12) 2.4.2-1; freetype (Debian:5.0) 2.3.7-2+lenny3; freetype2 (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 2.7-1.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted BDF font file, related to an attempted modification of a value in a static string.

MediumCVSS 4.3 · v2.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 19, 2010
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.8% · 78th percentile

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Action score

18

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 1.8%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
freetypefreetype

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • freetype freetypeup to 2.4.1 inclusive
  • freetype freetype1.3.1
  • freetype freetype2.0.6
  • freetype freetype2.0.9
  • freetype freetype2.1
  • freetype freetype2.1.10
  • freetype freetype2.1.3
  • freetype freetype2.1.4
  • freetype freetype2.1.5
  • freetype freetype2.1.6
  • freetype freetype2.1.7
  • freetype freetype2.1.8
  • freetype freetype2.1.9
  • freetype freetype2.2.0
  • freetype freetype2.2.1
  • freetype freetype2.2.10
  • freetype freetype2.3.0
  • freetype freetype2.3.1
  • freetype freetype2.3.10
  • freetype freetype2.3.11

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12freetypebefore 2.4.2-12.4.2-1
Debian:5.0freetypebefore 2.3.7-2+lenny32.3.7-2+lenny3
openSUSE:Tumbleweedfreetype2before 2.7-1.12.7-1.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweedft2demosbefore 2.7-1.12.7-1.1

Same product

freetype: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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    70This week
  • CVE-2012-1126FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serv
    42Plan
  • CVE-2022-27404FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function sfnt_init_face.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2015-9290In FreeType before 2.6.1, a buffer over-read occurs in type1/t1parse.c on function T1_Get_Private_Dict where there is no check that the new
    40Plan
  • CVE-2017-8287FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour funct
    40Plan
  • CVE-2017-8105FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings f
    40Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:freetype2.4.2-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:freetype22.7-1.1 · openSUSE:TumbleweedPackage registry (OSV)
opensuse:ft2demos2.7-1.1 · openSUSE:TumbleweedPackage registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    none
    Integrity
    none
    Availability
    P · the service can be disrupted
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    None
    Integrity impact
    None
    Availability impact
    P

    Weakness class (CWE)

    CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

    CVSS vector

    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

    nvd-primary

    Attack context

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    Change log

    1. Fix✗ → ✓

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    References

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