CVE-2018-6942
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-476
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497efPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html