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CVE-2016-10244

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• FreeType: before 2.7.1 — fixed in 2.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeType 2.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405

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