CVE-2017-7858

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
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: none known
Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-07 has an out-of-bounds write related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

Affected products

FreeType: through 2.7.1

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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