Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5668

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-01-24 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:14:16
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.