CVE-2012-1126

critical
Published 2012-04-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

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 read operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted property data in a BDF font.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1126

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-21.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.9-1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.9-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freetypefreetype{"endIncluding":"2.4.8"}
freetypefreetype1.3.1
freetypefreetype2.0.0
freetypefreetype2.0.1
freetypefreetype2.0.2
freetypefreetype2.0.3
freetypefreetype2.0.4
freetypefreetype2.0.5
freetypefreetype2.0.6
freetypefreetype2.0.7
freetypefreetype2.0.8
freetypefreetype2.0.9
freetypefreetype2.1
freetypefreetype2.1.3
freetypefreetype2.1.4
freetypefreetype2.1.5
freetypefreetype2.1.6
freetypefreetype2.1.7
freetypefreetype2.1.8
freetypefreetype2.1.9
freetypefreetype2.1.10
freetypefreetype2.2.0
freetypefreetype2.2.1
freetypefreetype2.3.0
freetypefreetype2.3.1
freetypefreetype2.3.2
freetypefreetype2.3.3
freetypefreetype2.3.4
freetypefreetype2.3.5
freetypefreetype2.3.6
freetypefreetype2.3.7
freetypefreetype2.3.8
freetypefreetype2.3.9
freetypefreetype2.3.10
freetypefreetype2.3.11
freetypefreetype2.3.12
freetypefreetype2.4.0
freetypefreetype2.4.1
freetypefreetype2.4.2
freetypefreetype2.4.3
freetypefreetype2.4.4
freetypefreetype2.4.5
freetypefreetype2.4.6
freetypefreetype2.4.7
mozillafirefox_mobile{"endIncluding":"10.0.3"}
mozillafirefox_mobile1.0
mozillafirefox_mobile4.0
mozillafirefox_mobile5.0
mozillafirefox_mobile6.0
mozillafirefox_mobile6.0.1
mozillafirefox_mobile6.0.2
mozillafirefox_mobile7.0
mozillafirefox_mobile8.0
mozillafirefox_mobile9.0
mozillafirefox_mobile10.0
mozillafirefox_mobile10.0.1
mozillafirefox_mobile10.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.