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CVE-2017-8287

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.0560%
EPSS Percentile3.78th
PublishedApr 27, 2017
Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability 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 Platforms (CPE)

📦
Freetype

Freetype

<= 2.7.1

References & Advisories

🔗 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

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