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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-8287: freetype security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-8287: freetype security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/26/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
04/22/2019

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-freetype
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-freetype-devel

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