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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3054

Original release date:08/19/2010
Last revised:12/19/2012
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in FreeType 2.3.9, and other versions before 2.4.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors involving nested Standard Encoding Accented Character (aka seac) calls, related to psaux.h, cffgload.c, cffgload.h, and t1decode.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0737
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0736
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-3046
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-3045
External Source: BID
Name: 42621
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48951
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42317
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42314
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:019
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-11-22-1
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:freetype:freetype:2.3.10
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:freetype:freetype:2.3.11
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:freetype:freetype:2.3.12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:freetype:freetype:2.4.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:freetype:freetype:2.4.1
* Denotes Vulnerable Software

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