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CVE-2017-7864

critical

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c.

References

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

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-14

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00476