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FreeBSD: VID-4A088D67-3AF2-11E7-9D75-C86000169601 (CVE-2017-8105): freetype2 -- buffer overflows

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FreeBSD: VID-4A088D67-3AF2-11E7-9D75-C86000169601 (CVE-2017-8105): freetype2 -- buffer overflows

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/18/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-freetype2

References

  • DLA-918-1
  • DSA-3839
  • CVE-2017-8105
  • USN-3282-1
  • USN-3282-2

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