CVE-2017-7864
Critical
CVE-2017-7864
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.
Exploit probability
3.8%
Published
April 14, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 10, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
96 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-7864
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html