VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5669

medium
Published 2013-01-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to BDF fonts and an incorrect calculation that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.9-1.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.9-1.1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.9-1.1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.9-1.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.9-1.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
freetypefreetype{"endIncluding":"2.4.10"}
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
freetypefreetype2.4.8
freetypefreetype2.4.9

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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