CVE-2016-10328

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: April 14, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cff/cffparse.c.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=beecf80a6deecbaf5d264d4f864451bde4fe98b8

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=49858

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97677

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=289

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=beecf80a6deecbaf5d264d4f864451bde4fe98b8