CVE-2017-8105
Critical
CVE-2017-8105
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.
Exploit probability
4.2%
Published
April 24, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 19, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
95 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-8105
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=f958c48ee431bef8d4d466b40c9cb2d4dbcb7791
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99093
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html