CVE-2016-10244 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=VER-2-7 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8