CVE-2017-8287

Critical

Published: 27/04/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

FreeType 2 before March 26, 2017, has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.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 26, 2017, to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.