CVE-2008-1807: FreeType

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid "number of axes" field in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a free of arbitrary memory locations, leading to memory corruption.

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.