CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10244
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (< 2.7.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html www.oracle.com
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html www.oracle.com