Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7857
CVE-2017-7857
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97680nvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailnvdIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
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