9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-8287

Published: 27/04/2017 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 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.

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Vendor Advisories

FreeType could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted font file ...
FreeType could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted font file ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Freetype Opening malformed fonts may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 252-3+deb8u2 We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages ...
Debian Bug report logs - #856971 freetype: CVE-2016-10244 Package: src:freetype; Maintainer for src:freetype is Hugh McMaster <hughmcmaster@outlookcom>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 19:24:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in version fre ...
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 ...
FreeType 2 <= 271 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjsc ...