VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-6942
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.08%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.08%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.08% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- freetype/freetype · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497efPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497efPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.