CVE-2018-6942

Published: 13 February 2018

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.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 6.5

Status

Package Release Status
freetype
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) Not vulnerable

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Not vulnerable

Patches:
Upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva 
for precise/esm, trusty and xenial code affected is not present.

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