CVE-2018-6942
Moderate
CVE-2018-6942
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
Exploit probability
2.1%
Published
February 13, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
99 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-6942
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An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00054.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3572-1/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html