Out-of-bounds Write Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2381000
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freetype to version 2.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

CVSS Scores

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