Critical severity · published Apr 24, 2017
CVE-2017-8105
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c
9.8
CVSS
4.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.4% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
FR
Freetype · Freetype
before 2.7.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8105
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8105
Patch
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=f958c48ee431bef8d4d466b40c9cb2d4dbcb7791
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99093
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
www.oracle.com
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
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