Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2012-5668

Published: 31 December 2012

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.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
freetype
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (2.4.11)
hardy
Released (2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.10)
lucid
Released (2.3.11-1ubuntu2.7)
oneiric
Released (2.4.4-2ubuntu1.3)
precise
Released (2.4.8-1ubuntu2.1)
quantal
Released (2.4.10-0ubuntu1.1)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=9b6b5754b57c12b820e01305eb69b8863a161e5a