CVE-2008-1807 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1807 at MITRE

Description

FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid "number of axes" field in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a free of arbitrary memory locations, leading to memory corruption.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 399169 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:014, published Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:48:47 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:17 2025