CVE-2010-2527: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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

Multiple buffer overflows in demo programs in FreeType before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 8.04 only; version 9.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only
• 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.