CVE-2010-3311: FreeType

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in base/ftstream.c in libXft (aka the X FreeType library) in FreeType before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Compact Font Format (CFF) font file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an "input stream position error" issue, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1797.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: up to and including 2.3.12; 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 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.