CVE-2017-7857

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7857
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7857.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7857
Published
2017-04-14T04:59:00.273Z
Modified
2026-07-22T04:18:31.353342Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TTGetMMVar function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfntinit_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

References

Affected packages

Git
cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
7bbb91fbf47fc0775cc9705673caf0c47a81f94b
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7857.json"
github.com/aseprite/freetype2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/aseprite/freetype2
Events
Introduced
d2d5968aed5bc264c885c54d0a50e5355808ab78
Fixed
a12a34451a99cbbcad55d466940fd445171927fd
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
VER-2-7
VER-2-7-1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7857.json"
github.com/freetype/freetype

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/freetype/freetype
Events
Introduced
d2d5968aed5bc264c885c54d0a50e5355808ab78
Fixed
a12a34451a99cbbcad55d466940fd445171927fd
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
VER-2-7
VER-2-7-1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7857.json"
gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype
Events
Introduced
d2d5968aed5bc264c885c54d0a50e5355808ab78
Fixed
a12a34451a99cbbcad55d466940fd445171927fd
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.7"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
VER-2-7
VER-2-7-1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7857.json"