Out-of-bounds Write Affecting freetype package, versions <2.6.3-3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.64% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-FREETYPE-521170
  • published24 Apr 2017
  • disclosed24 Apr 2017

Introduced: 24 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 freetype to version 2.6.3-3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freetype package and not the freetype package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.