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CVE-2018-6942

by Fred · 13/02/2018

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.

Date published : 2018-02-13

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5736

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef

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