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CVE-2017-8105

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.

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/commit/?id=f958c48ee431bef8d4d466b40c9cb2d4dbcb7791
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99093
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=f958c48ee431bef8d4d466b40c9cb2d4dbcb7791
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99093
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=935
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14

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