Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freetype package, versions [,2.3.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.02% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREETYPE-2381015
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jul 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2007

CVE-2007-3506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freetype to version 2.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The ft_bitmap_assure_buffer function in src/base/ftbimap.c in FreeType 2.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving bitmap fonts, related to a "memory buffer overwrite bug."

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CVSS Base Scores

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