CVE-2010-1797
EXPLOITEDiPhone OS - Remote Code Execution via Crafted CFF Opcodes in Embedded Fonts
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2010-1797 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). EIP tracks 2 public exploits from researchers including jailbreakme, Jose Miguel Esparza.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The entry describes a PDF exploit for iOS jailbreaking but only provides an external download link without any technical details or actual exploit code. This is characteristic of a social engineering lure.
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the cff_decoder_parse_charstrings function in the CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter in cff/cffgload.c in FreeType before 2.4.2, as used in Apple iOS before 4.0.2 on the iPhone and iPod touch and before 3.2.2 on the iPad, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted CFF opcodes in embedded fonts in a PDF document, as demonstrated by JailbreakMe. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Exploits (2)
The entry describes a PDF exploit for iOS jailbreaking but only provides an external download link without any technical details or actual exploit code. This is characteristic of a social engineering lure.
This exploit targets a stack-based buffer overflow in FreeType's Compact Font Format (CFF) parsing in Foxit Reader <= 4.0. It crafts a malicious PDF with a specially encoded shellcode to achieve remote code execution via a crafted CFF stream.