DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1861

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1861 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Multiple integer overflows in FreeType before 2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via attack vectors related to (1) bdf/bdflib.c, (2) sfnt/ttcmap.c, (3) cff/cffgload.c, and (4) the read_lwfn function and a crafted LWFN file in base/ftmac.c. NOTE: item 4 was originally identified by CVE-2006-2493.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:12	freetype	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	freetype	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	freetype	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	freetype	0, 0, 0

Timeline

May 23, 2006 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1861 advisory

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