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    CVE-2017-8287

    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.

    Published:Mar 26, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Apr 27, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00866
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Freetype
    Product
    Freetype

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-50811 (CVSS 6.5) — An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in FreeType 2.14.3 and versions before commit 5a280ecde6f324de0d226…
    CVE-2026-23865 (CVSS 5.3) — An integer overflow in the tt_var_load_item_variation_store function of the Freetype library in versions 2.13.…
    CVE-2025-27363 (CVSS 8.1) — An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulner…
    CVE-2025-23022 (CVSS 4) — FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.…
    CVE-2022-27404 (CVSS 9.8) — FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via …
    CVE-2022-27406 (CVSS 7.5) — FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation vi…
    CVE-2022-27405 (CVSS 7.5) — FreeType commit 53dfdcd8198d2b3201a23c4bad9190519ba918db was discovered to contain a segmentation violation vi…
    CVE-2020-15999 (CVSS 9.6) — Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentia…
    CVE-2015-9381 (CVSS 8.8) — FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1_Get_Private_Dict in type1/t1parse.c.…
    CVE-2015-9382 (CVSS 6.5) — FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skip_comment in psaux/psobjs.c because ps_parser_skip_PS_token…

    References

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
    http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0
    http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99091
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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