CVE-2010-2498 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2498?

CVE-2010-2498 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 19 Aug 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The psh_glyph_find_strong_points function in pshinter/pshalgo.c in FreeType before 2.4.0 does not properly implement hinting masks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file that triggers an invalid free operation.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2498?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freetype Freetype.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2498?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-2498 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2498 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2498, GHSA-73vq-553q-pmh8.