CVE-2010-2541: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ftmulti.c in the ftmulti demo program in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows 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
• FreeType FreeType: before 2.4.2 (fixed in 2.4.2)

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