CVE-2006-1861: FreeType

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in FreeType before 2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via attack vectors related to (1) bdf/bdflib.c, (2) sfnt/ttcmap.c, (3) cff/cffgload.c, and (4) the read_lwfn function and a crafted LWFN file in base/ftmac.c. NOTE: item 4 was originally identified by CVE-2006-2493.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: version 2.0.9 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.6 only; version 2.1.7 only; …

Published 2006-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.