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CVE-2017-7864

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% 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 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c.

Affected products

• FreeType: through 2.7.1

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509
• 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=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97673
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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