cve/2012/CVE-2012-5668.md

### [CVE-2012-5668](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5668)
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### Description

FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.freetype.org/

#### Github
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