CVE-2017-8105

Published: 24 April 2017

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
freetype Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Released (2.4.8-1ubuntu2.6)
	trusty	Released (2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8)
	upstream	Released (2.6.3-3.2)
	xenial	Released (2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.3)
	yakkety	Released (2.6.3-3ubuntu1.3)
	zesty	Released (2.6.3-3ubuntu2.2)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8105
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3282-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3282-2
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861220
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935

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