CVE-2012-1141 in iOS

Summary

FreeType before 2.4.9, as used in Mozilla Firefox Mobile before 10.0.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid heap read operation and memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ASCII string in a BDF font.

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• Reservation: 02/14/2012
• Disclosure: 04/25/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-6332
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.2
• EPSS: 0.02967
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1141
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1141
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-1141/