CVE-2008-1806: FreeType

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted set of 16-bit length values within the Private dictionary table in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: version 1.3.1 only; version 2.3.3 only; version 2.3.4 only; version 2.3.5 only

Published 2008-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.