CVE-2016-10244

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-06

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High