PT-2017-2105 · Freetype+3 · Freetype+3

Published 2017-04-24 · Updated 2025-04-24 · CVE-2017-8105

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 versions prior to 2017-03-24

Description The issue is caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the t1 decoder parse charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c of the FreeType library. This can allow a remote attacker to write data beyond the boundaries of a buffer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-03-24, update to a version released after 2017-03-24 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the t1 decoder parse charstrings function until a patch is available.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2190

BDU:2017-01282

CVE-2017-8105

DLA-918-1

DSA-3839-1

MGASA-2017-0124

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_0420-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10770-1

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 · 54

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8105 · Security Note
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=f958c48ee431bef8d4d466b40c9cb2d4dbcb7791 · Patch
• 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
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01282 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8105 · Security Note
• 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/ALPINE-CVE-2017-8105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 · Vendor Advisory