CVE-2017-7857

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

4%p89

Published

Apr 14, 2017 (Apr 14, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the TT_Get_MM_Var function in truetype/ttgxvar.c and the sfnt_init_face function in sfnt/sfobjs.c.

Vendors: freetype
Products: freetype
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.6%)

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