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Vulnerability details: VCID-n8ke-6dq8-2uaf
Vulnerability ID VCID-n8ke-6dq8-2uaf
Aliases CVE-2012-5670
Summary The _bdf_parse_glyphs function in FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and an ENCODING field with a negative value.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
epss 0.02977 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-5670
epss 0.02977 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-5670
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-5670.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-5670
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5670
696691 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696691
890094 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890094
GLSA-201402-16 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201402-16
USN-1686-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1686-1/
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.86775
EPSS Score 0.02977
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:37:32.929160+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0