Bug 1446073 (CVE-2017-8287) - CVE-2017-8287 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function
Summary: CVE-2017-8287 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-8287
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1446074 1446075 1446076
Blocks: 1446078
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-27 08:19 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-22 09:07:34 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-04-27 08:19:38 UTC 
FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.

Upstream patch:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0

Bug report:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=941
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-04-27 08:20:24 UTC 
Created freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1446074]


Created mingw-freetype tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1446076]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1446075]
Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2017-08-22 09:07:50 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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