CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-27405

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.82%

85th percentile - higher than 85% of all known CVEs

Summary

A segmentation violation was discovered in the FreeType library in the FNT_Size_Request function, potentially causing program crashes.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) by providing a specially crafted font file.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the FreeType library to the latest version that includes the fix for this commit.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FreeType commit 53dfdcd8198d2b3201a23c4bad9190519ba918db was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FNT_Size_Request.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS