CVE-2017-7857

Published: 14 April 2017

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

Notes

Debian: freetype: <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 2.6.4
Debian: introduced after http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=813aca51d28704f7ffc470721167738fa8decb3d (dated 2016-02-14)

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7857
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=759
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7bbb91fbf47fc0775cc9705673caf0c47a81f94b
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian