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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8105: Vulnerability in FreeType

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8105: Vulnerability in FreeType

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-system-library-freetype-2-2-8-0-175-3-24-0-3-1539

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