Description
FreeType 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 service (invalid heap write operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted glyph or bitmap data in a BDF font that lacks an ENCODING field.
Published: 2012-04-25
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 5.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2428-1 freetype security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-1170 FreeType 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 service (invalid heap write operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted glyph or bitmap data in a BDF font that lacks an ENCODING field.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1403-1 FreeType vulnerabilities
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Freetype Freetype
Mozilla Firefox Mobile
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T18:45:27.474Z

Reserved: 2012-02-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1136

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-04-25T10:10:18.417

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-1136

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2012-02-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-1136 - Bugzilla

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