Alpine: multiple freetype packages: security update to 2.7.1-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423879

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- 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. (CVE-2017-8105)

- 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. (CVE-2017-8287)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8105

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8287

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423879

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8105, CVE-2017-8287

BID: 99091, 99093