Vulnerability CVE-2016-10244
Published: 2017-03-06

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.

Type:

CWE-125

 (Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Freetype -> Freetype 
Freetype -> Freetype2 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
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
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