PT-2017-17960 · Freetype+2 · Freetype+2

Published 2017-04-14 · Updated 2021-01-26 · CVE-2017-7864

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeType 2 versions prior to 2017-02-02

Description The issue is caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt size reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c, leading to an out-of-bounds write.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-02-02, update to a version released after 2017-02-02 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2190

CVE-2017-7864

MGASA-2018-0128

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_0420-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freetype

Suse

References · 38

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8287 · Security Note
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8 · Patch
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-2190 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7864 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00884 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8105 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10244 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7864 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0128 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10328 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7858 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0128.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7857 · Security Note