Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting freetype package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FREETYPE-2774618
  • published23 Apr 2022
  • disclosed22 Apr 2022

Introduced: 22 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-27406  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 freetype.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream freetype package and not the freetype package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FT_Request_Size.

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