CVE-2017-8105

CRITICAL

FreeType < 2.7.1 - Out-of-bounds Write in t1_decoder_parse_charstrings

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99093
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0419
EPSS Percentile 89.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
freetype/freetype < 2.7.1
Published Apr 24, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026