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CVE-2010-3054

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3054 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeType versions 2.3.9 and earlier than 2.4.2. This flaw arises from malformed nested Standard Encoding Accented Character (seac) calls within font files, impacting the psaux.h, cffgload.c, cffgload.h, and t1decode.c components. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service without requiring authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: freetype-0:2.1.4-18.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: freetype-0:2.1.9-17.el4.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: freetype-0:2.2.1-28.el5_5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3054Low

freetype: DoS via nested "seac" calls

Aug 13, 2010

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/maverick/+source/freetype/+bug/617019
secunia.com / advisories/42314
secunia.com / advisories/42317
secunia.com / advisories/48951
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0736.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0737.html
support.apple.com / kb/HT4435
support.apple.com / kb/HT4456
support.apple.com / kb/HT4457
securityfocus.com / bid/42621
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3045
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3046