CVE-2017-7857

Critical

Description

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

SeverityCritical

CVSS9.8

Exploit probability—

ProductFreetype

PublishedApr 14, 2017

First seenApr 14, 2017

How to fix

Update

freetype freetype2.8 or later

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
freetype freetype	2.7 ≤ v < 2.8	2.8

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