PT-2017-18260 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Published 2017-04-26 · Updated 2025-04-24 · CVE-2017-8287

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 2017-03-26

Description The issue is caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1 builder close contour function in psaux/psobjs.c, resulting in an out-of-bounds write.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-03-26, update to a version released after 2017-03-26 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2190

CVE-2017-8287

DLA-931-1

DSA-3839-1

MGASA-2017-0124

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_0420-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0462-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20204-1

USN-3282-1

USN-3282-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Freetype

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 49

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:20204-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3839-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0 · Patch
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3282-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8287 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8287 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8287 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0124.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8287 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8287 · Vendor Advisory