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CVE-2017-8287

critical

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.

References

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

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-27

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: 0.00861