USN-3398-1

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    USN-3398-1

    Published: 21 Aug 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: graphite2 vulnerabilities

    Details: Holger Fuhrmannek and Tyson Smith discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformed fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-crafted font file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause graphite2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3398-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7771, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7772, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7773, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7774, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7775, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7776, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7777, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7778

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: graphite2

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.10-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.2.3-1
    1.2.4-1
    1.2.4-1ubuntu1
    1.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    USN-3398-1 | CVE-DB