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CVE-2016-10328

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Out-of-bounds write
9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cff/cffparse.c.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=beecf80a6deecbaf5d264d4f864451bde4fe98b8 ↗