CVE-2017-8287

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: April 27, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.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=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0