CVE-2017-7858

9.8 CRITICAL

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

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-07 has an out-of-bounds write related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.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=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking 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=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e