CVE-2017-8105

Publication date 24 April 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freetype 17.04 zesty
Fixed 2.6.3-3ubuntu2.2
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 2.6.3-3ubuntu1.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package Patch details
freetype

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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