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TI-2010-02919 Aliases CVE-2010-3054GHSA-ppwg-2jjq-44w4

Unspecified vulnerability in FreeType 2.3.9, and other versions before 2.4.2, allows…

Priority LOW 29Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Partial
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03329 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 6

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.9VulnerableFreeType
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.10VulnerableFreeType
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.11VulnerableFreeType
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.12VulnerableFreeType
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.4.0VulnerableFreeType
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.4.1VulnerableFreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.9 Vulnerable ·FreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.10 Vulnerable ·FreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.11 Vulnerable ·FreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.12 Vulnerable ·FreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.4.0 Vulnerable ·FreeType
  • cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.4.1 Vulnerable ·FreeType

Remediation

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2010:0737 Released 2010-10-04 · Red Hat rating Important
    freetype security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5, freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.i386, freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.ia64 +9
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.i386, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.ia64 +13
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5, freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5.i386
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_5, freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_5, freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_5.i386 +2
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.i386, freetype-demos-2.1.9-17.el4.8 +5
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.i386, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.ia64 +9
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.i386, freetype-2.1.9-17.el4.8.ia64 +9
  • RHSA-2010:0736 Released 2010-10-04 · Red Hat rating Important
    freetype security update
    • Red Hat Desktop version 3 freetype-2.1.4-18.el3, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.i386, freetype-devel-2.1.4-18.el3 +1
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 freetype-2.1.4-18.el3, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.i386, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.ia64 +5
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 freetype-2.1.4-18.el3, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.i386, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.ia64 +3
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 freetype-2.1.4-18.el3, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.i386, freetype-2.1.4-18.el3.ia64 +3

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Desktop version 3Fixed RHSA-2010:0736
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3Fixed RHSA-2010:0736
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3Fixed RHSA-2010:0736
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3Fixed RHSA-2010:0736
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4Fixed RHSA-2010:0737
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2010-3054
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ppwg-2jjq-44w4

References

Advisory 5

Other 6

  • TI-2020-12611 Buffer overflow in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
  • TI-2025-20210 Out-of-bounds write in FreeType KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2025-16833 FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2
  • TI-2012-01032 FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
  • TI-2011-02548 The LZW decompressor in (1) the BufCompressedFill function in fontfile/decompress.c in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3
  • TI-2010-03164 Integer overflow in base/ftstream.c in libXft (aka the X FreeType library) in FreeType… CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3
See all 94 →

Sources

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