CVE-2016-10244

high

Published 2017-03-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.6.3-3.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.6.3-3.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.6.3-3.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.6.3-3.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.6.3-3.1`
debian	8.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
freetype	freetype	`{"endExcluding":"2.7.1"}`	`2.7.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.