9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-7857

Published: 14/04/2017 Updated: 26/01/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

FreeType 2 prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #861308 freetype: CVE-2017-8287: out-of-bounds write via t1_builder_close_contour function Package: src:freetype; Maintainer for src:freetype is Hugh McMaster <hughmcmaster@outlookcom>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:21:01 UTC Severity: grave ...
Debian Bug report logs - #861220 freetype: CVE-2017-8105 Package: src:freetype; Maintainer for src:freetype is Hugh McMaster <hughmcmaster@outlookcom>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:24:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in versions freetyp ...