Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package freetype  (opens in a new tab)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-DEBIAN9-FREETYPE-601493
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-10328  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

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

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cff/cffparse.c.