PT-2006-3581 · Freetype+1 · Freetype+1

Josh Bressers · Published 2006-05-30 · Updated 2021-04-05 · CVE-2006-2661

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Freetype versions prior to 2.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted font file that triggers a null dereference in the ftutil.c file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.2, update to version 2.2 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-2661

DSA-1095-1

RHSA-2006:0500

RHSA-2006_0500

Affected Products

Freetype

Red Hat

References · 44

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/27993 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2661 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2661 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0500.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06175 · Security Note
• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060701-01-U · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09504 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06179 · Security Note
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0012.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04895 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09401 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06177 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1095 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183676 · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04896 · Security Note