CVE-2017-8287

critical

Published 2017-04-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

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.

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
arch		fixed	`2.7.1-2`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.6.3-3.2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.6.3-3.2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.6.3-3.2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.6.3-3.2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.6.3-3.2`

Application impact

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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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