Detections
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CVE-2016-10244
high
Description
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.
References
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7