CVE-2016-10244

Published: 6 March 2017

The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
freetype Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Released (2.4.8-1ubuntu2.4)
	trusty	Released (2.5.2-1ubuntu2.6)
	upstream	Released (2.7)
	xenial	Released (2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.1)
	yakkety	Released (2.6.3-3ubuntu1.1)
	zesty	Released (2.6.3-3ubuntu2)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10244
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3237-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856971

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