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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-8105 json

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings…

published 2017-04-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17068

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-24 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings function in psaux/t1decode.c.

Patch / fix

  • freetype freetype 2.7.1
  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.3-3.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8105

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8
  • freetype Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8105

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

  • freetype2 Linux Micro 6.0 2.13.3-1.1
  • freetype2 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.45.5.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.45.5.1
  • freetype2 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.6.3-7.15.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 2.6.3-7.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20204-1SUSE-SU-2018:0462-1SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1

  • freetype2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.11.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10770-1

  • freetype Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 2.7.1-r1
  • freetype Alpine 3.2 2.5.5-r1
  • freetype Alpine 3.3 2.6.3-r0
  • freetype Alpine 3.4 2.6.3-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-8105

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

  • freetype2 Arch Linux 2.7.1-2
  • lib32-freetype2 Arch Linux 2.7.1-2

arch linux advisories AVG-257AVG-258

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-2017-8105 updated cvss 7.0

freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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