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CVE-2010-2541

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2541 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ftmulti demo program of FreeType versions prior to 2.4.2, affecting products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) can be exploited remotely with moderate attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
9.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0478 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: freetype-0:2.1.4-15.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: freetype-0:2.1.9-14.el4.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: freetype-0:2.2.1-25.el5_5
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: freetype

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2541Low

Freetype ftmulti buffer overflow

Jul 22, 2010

References

freetype.sourceforge.net / index2.html
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
Issue TrackingRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40982
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48951
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
sourceforge.net / projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.2/NEWS/view
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0577.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0578.html
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-972-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2106
Third Party Advisory