CVE-2017-8287
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.6% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.61% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-04-27 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| freetype | freetype |
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
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