CVE-2017-7864

9.8 CRITICAL

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

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/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=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8