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    CVE-2012-1128

    FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font.

    Published:Feb 23, 2012
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Apr 25, 2012
    EPSS Score:0.02697
    CVSS Score:9.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Freetype
    Product
    Freetype
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Firefox Mobile

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    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

    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00004.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48508
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48822
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48973
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-04.xml
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:057
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-21.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/16
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52318
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026765
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1403-1
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733512
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800584
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00004.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48508
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48822
    http://secunia.com/advisories/48973
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-04.xml
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:057
    http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-21.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/16
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52318
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026765
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1403-1
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733512
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800584

    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