CVE-2010-3053: FreeType

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bdf/bdflib.c in FreeType before 2.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted BDF font file, related to an attempted modification of a value in a static string.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: up to and including 2.4.1; version 1.3.1 only; version 2.0.6 only; version 2.0.9 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.3 only; …

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