CVE-2017-7858

9.8 criticalEPSS 3.4%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2017-04-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freetype:freetype

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=779309744222a736eba0f1731e8162fce6288d4e
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97682
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=738
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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