CVE-2016-10244

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Mar 6, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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