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    CVE-2007-2754

    Integer signedness error in truetype/ttgload.c in Freetype 2.3.4 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TTF image with a negative n_points value, which leads to an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow.

    Published:Apr 27, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:May 17, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.41922
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Freetype
    Product
    Freetype
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240200http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240200

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-50811 (CVSS 6.5) — An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in FreeType 2.14.3 and versions before commit 5a280ecde6f324de0d226…
    CVE-2026-23865 (CVSS 5.3) — An integer overflow in the tt_var_load_item_variation_store function of the Freetype library in versions 2.13.…
    CVE-2025-27363 (CVSS 8.1) — An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulner…
    CVE-2025-23022 (CVSS 4) — FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.…
    CVE-2022-27404 (CVSS 9.8) — FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via …
    CVE-2022-27406 (CVSS 7.5) — FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation vi…
    CVE-2022-27405 (CVSS 7.5) — FreeType commit 53dfdcd8198d2b3201a23c4bad9190519ba918db was discovered to contain a segmentation violation vi…
    CVE-2020-15999 (CVSS 9.6) — Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentia…
    CVE-2015-9381 (CVSS 8.8) — FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.…
    CVE-2015-9382 (CVSS 6.5) — FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token…

    References

    ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc
    http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/freetype2/src/truetype/ttgload.c?root=freetype&r1=1.177&r2=1.178
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00003.html
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.html
    http://osvdb.org/36509
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25350
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25353
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25386
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25463
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25483
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25609
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25612
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25654
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25705
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25808
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25905
    http://secunia.com/advisories/26129
    http://secunia.com/advisories/26305
    http://secunia.com/advisories/28298
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35200
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35204
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35233
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102967-1
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103171-1
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200033-1
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-330.htm
    http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1302
    http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1334
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-22.xml
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-02.xml
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:121
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_41_freetype2.html
    http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.018.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0403.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0329.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1062.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469463/100/200/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471286/30/6180/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24074
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018088
    http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-466-1
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1894
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2229
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0049
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240200
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502565
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1390
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11325
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5532
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01316.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01401.html
    ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc
    http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/freetype2/src/truetype/ttgload.c?root=freetype&r1=1.177&r2=1.178
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00003.html
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2007-04/msg00041.html
    http://osvdb.org/36509
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25350
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25353
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25386
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25463
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25483
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25609
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25612
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25654
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25705
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25808
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25905
    http://secunia.com/advisories/26129
    http://secunia.com/advisories/26305
    http://secunia.com/advisories/28298
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35200
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35204
    http://secunia.com/advisories/35233
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102967-1
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103171-1
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200033-1
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-330.htm
    http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1302
    http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1334
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-22.xml
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200707-02.xml
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:121
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_41_freetype2.html
    http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.018.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0403.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0329.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1062.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469463/100/200/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471286/30/6180/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24074
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018088
    http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-466-1
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1894
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2229
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0049
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240200
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502565
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1390
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11325
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5532
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01316.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01401.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High