CVE-2010-2497: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer underflow in glyph handling in FreeType before 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.6.5 (fixed in 10.6.5)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
• FreeType FreeType: before 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.4.0)

Published 2010-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.