CVE-2017-7858

moderate-risk
Published 2017-04-14

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-07 has an out-of-bounds write related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

Do I need to act?

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2.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Freetype

References (10)

Patch http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a...
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682
Issue Tracking https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
Third Party Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Patch http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a...
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682
Issue Tracking https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
Third Party Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
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moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 6/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal