CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7857
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.
Affected configurations
• freetype freetype (>= 2.7 < 2.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7bbb91fbf47fc0775cc9705673caf0c47a81f94b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97680 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=759 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7bbb91fbf47fc0775cc9705673caf0c47a81f94b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97680 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=759 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html Third Party Advisory