ubuntu · CVE-2016-10244

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:53:05 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-10244 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (freetype), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6.

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.

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