PT-2018-17832 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Published 2018-02-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-6942

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeType 2 versions prior to 2.10

Description A NULL pointer dereference issue in the Ins GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to denial of service (DoS) via a crafted font file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10, update to version 2.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1983

CVE-2018-6942

MGASA-2018-0140

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0704-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_0704-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10770-1

SUSE-SU-2020:1353-1

SUSE-SU-2020_1353-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freetype

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 33

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6942 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:0704-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:1353-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6942 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6942 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10770-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0140.html · Security Note