CVE-2006-2661: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 16.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ftutil.c in Freetype before 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted font file that triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 5.04 only; version 5.10 only; version 6.06 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only
• FreeType FreeType: before 2.2 (fixed in 2.2)

Published 2006-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.