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high 7.5

CVE-2022-27406 json

FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FT_Request_Siz…

published 2022-04-22 4 y ago modified 2026-07-25 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-31909 , JLSEC-2026-459

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FT_Request_Size.

Patch / fix

  • julia FreeType2_jll 2.13.1+0
  • freetype freetype 2.12.0
  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.11.1+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-27406

  • freetype Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.8.1-2ubuntu2.2
  • freetype Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
  • freetype Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
  • freetype Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.5+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-27406

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freetype RHEL 9 2.10.4-9.el9
  • freetype RHEL 8 2.9.1-9.el8
  • freetype RHEL 8.6 EUS 2.9.1-5.el8_6.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:0420RHSA-2022:8340RHSA-2022:7745

  • freetype2 Linux Micro 6.0 2.13.3-1.1
  • freetype2 SLES 15 SP2-BCL, SLES 15 SP1-BCL, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 +23 more 2.10.4-150000.4.12.1
  • ft2demos SLES 15 SP2-BCL, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 +10 more 2.10.4-150000.4.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20204-1SUSE-SU-2022:3252-2SUSE-SU-2022:3252-1

  • freetype2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.12.1-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12279-1

  • freetype AlmaLinux 9 2.10.4-9.el9
  • freetype AlmaLinux 8 2.9.1-9.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2022:8340ALSA-2022:7745

  • freetype Rocky Linux 9 2.10.4-9.el9
  • freetype Rocky Linux 8 2.9.1-9.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2022:8340RLSA-2022:7745

  • freetype Alpine 3.12 2.10.4-r2
  • freetype Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 2.10.4-r3
  • freetype Alpine 3.15 2.11.1-r2
  • freetype Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 2.12.1-r0
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.16 5.15.3_git20220505-r3
  • qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +4 more 5.15.3_git20220601-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-27406

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • qt5-qtbase CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.9-1
  • freetype CBL-Mariner 2.0 2.12.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-26759AZL-9581

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-27406 updated cvss 7.1

Freetype: Segmentation violation via FT_Request_Size

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) freetype 2.10.4-9.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8340
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) freetype 2.9.1-9.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:7745
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) freetype 2.10.4-9.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8340
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6) freetype 2.9.1-5.el8_6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0420
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/multiclusterhub-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1140 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia FreeType2_jll
<2.13.1+0
2.13.1+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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