vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-5436)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An out-of-bounds write has been found in the Graphite 2 library, triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as Mozilla products.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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