CVE-2017-7857
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| freetype | freetype | {"startIncluding":"2.7","endExcluding":"2.8"} | 2.8 |
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=7bbb91fbf47fc0775cc9705673caf0c47a81f94b
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97680
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=759
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7857.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7857
CWEs
CWE-787
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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