CVE-2017-7857 — Out-of-bounds Write in Freetype

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow8 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.5%
top 14.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FreetypeDebian Freetype
Timeline
PublishedApr 14
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDfreetype/freetype2.7 — 2.8

Patches

Patch: git.savannah.gnu.org ↗Patch: git.savannah.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-28p8-v452-44mv: 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/ttgxv↗2022-05-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function↗2017-03-08
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Debian
CVE-2017-7857: freetype - FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based b...↗2017
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7857 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function↗2017-04-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10328 CVE-2017-7857 CVE-2017-7858 CVE-2017-7864 freetype: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10328 CVE-2017-7857 CVE-2017-7858 CVE-2017-7864 mingw-freetype: various flaws [epel-7]↗2017-04-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10328 CVE-2017-7857 CVE-2017-7858 CVE-2017-7864 mingw-freetype: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-24
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