Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package freetype  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-FREETYPE-5846450
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed22 Apr 2022

Introduced: 22 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-27404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freetype package and not the freetype package as distributed by Chainguard.

FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function sfnt_init_face.