ubuntu · CVE-2017-7864

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-04-14 04:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:39:24 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7864 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (freetype), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 5, released 1.

Description:

FreeType 2 before 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in truetype/ttobjs.c.

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