CVE-2010-2807: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeType before 2.4.2 uses incorrect integer data types during bounds checking, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: before 4.2 (fixed in 4.2)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.6.5 (fixed in 10.6.5)
• Apple tvOS: before 4.1.0 (fixed in 4.1.0)
• 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.