Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-6942 json

An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9.

published 2018-02-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-18686

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.9.1-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6942

  • freetype2 SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 2.10.1-4.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1353-1

  • freetype2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.11.0-1.2
  • freetype2 openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.10.1-lp151.4.3.1
  • ft2demos openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.10.1-lp151.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10770-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0704-1

  • freetype Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 2.9-r1
  • freetype Alpine 3.5 2.7-r2
  • freetype Alpine 3.6 2.7.1-r2
  • freetype Alpine 3.7 2.8.1-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-6942

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freetype2 Arch Linux 2.9.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-613

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-6942 updated cvss 3.3

freetype: NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 freetype
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.