CVE-2017-8287

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

FreeType: through 2.7.1

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
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=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14

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