CVE-2010-2520
Status: ModifiedMedium (5.1)—
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ins_IUP function in truetype/ttinterp.c in FreeType before 2.4.0, when TrueType bytecode support is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Base score: 5.1
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 5.71%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 93
- Score date: 10/12/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (4)
CWEs
- CWE-787
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=888cd1843e935fe675cf2ac303116d4ed5b9d54b
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613198
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30361
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=888cd1843e935fe675cf2ac303116d4ed5b9d54b
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2010-07/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127905701201340&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127909326909362&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48951
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2070
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:137
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613198
- https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30361
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