CVE-2017-8105

Critical

Published: 24/04/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

FreeType 2 before March 24, 2017, 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.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unauthorized memory access, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution or application crashes.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FreeType to a version released after March 24, 2017, to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.