Freetype vulnerabilities2 known to be exploited.
Freetype has 94 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. 2 of them are on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Freetype, with 94. If you run Freetype software, patch the exploited flaws first.
The most recent Freetype flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2025-27363, on 6 May 2025. We keep watching the known-exploited list.
Which Freetype vulnerabilities are being exploited?
2 flaws are on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.
- 8.1FreeType Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
FreeType contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files that may allow for arbitrary code execution.
- 9.6Google Chrome FreeType Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Google Chrome uses FreeType, an open-source software library to render fonts, which contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the function Load_SBit_Png when processing PNG images embedded into fonts.
Which Freetype flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 64%
Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
- 28%
An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulnerable) when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files.
- 16%CVE-2006-2661Medium
ftutil.c in Freetype before 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted font file that triggers a null dereference.
- 13%CVE-2006-0747Medium
Integer underflow in Freetype before 2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a font file with an odd number of blue values, which causes the underflow when decrementing by 2 in a context...
- 8.5%CVE-2009-0946High
Multiple integer overflows in FreeType 2.3.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to large values in certain inputs in (1) smooth/ftsmooth.c, (2) sfnt/ttcmap.c, and (3)...
- 7.7%CVE-2014-9659High
cff/cf2intrp.c in the CFF CharString interpreter in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with additional hints after the hint mask has been computed, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a...
- 7.0%CVE-2014-2240High
Stack-based buffer overflow in the cf2_hintmap_build function in cff/cf2hints.c in FreeType before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large...
- 6.7%CVE-2010-3311Critical
Integer overflow in base/ftstream.c in libXft (aka the X FreeType library) in FreeType before 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a...
- 6.6%CVE-2011-0226Critical
Integer signedness error in psaux/t1decode.c in FreeType before 2.4.6, as used in CoreGraphics in Apple iOS before 4.2.9 and 4.3.x before 4.3.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or...
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FreeType contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files that may allow for arbitrary code execution.
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Our catalogue lists 94 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 119 versions from Freetype. The most recent Freetype flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2025-27363, on 6 May 2025.
2 Freetype vulnerabilities are on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added are CVE-2025-27363 and CVE-2020-15999. The full list is on this page.
Freetype, with 94 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.
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