CVE-2016-10244
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Out-of-bounds read
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36Patch
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01Advisory