CVE-2017-8105

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-8105 · Published 24/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-8105 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting freetype (freetype).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.4%, higher than 91.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.7.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
freetype freetype	`< 2.7.1`	`2.7.1`

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.

References

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit · Patch
debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/99093 · Third Party Advisory
bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail · Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 · Third Party Advisory
oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

freetype

< 2.7.1

2.7.1

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