CVE-2017-7864 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-04-14

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 2.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-16839	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02062.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7864
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7864
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

History

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Subscriptions

Freetype Freetype

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-14T04:30:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:19:28.520Z

Reserved: 2017-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7864

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-14T04:59:00.557

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7864

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7864 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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