CVE-2012-5668

EPSS 2.8%

Published: 1/24/2013Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5668

Description

FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/freetypefrom 0, < 2.4.9-1.1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5668