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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8105): FreeType vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8105): FreeType vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/09/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreetype6

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