CVE-2017-8287

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.036 · 89 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.61% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function in psaux/psobjs.c.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Debian Linux Jessie (8.0) 8.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.1
Debian Linux Wheezy (7.0) 7.3all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.3
Debian Linux Wheezy (7.0) 7.6all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.6
Open Source FreeTypeall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:freetype:freetype:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
freetype freetype≤ 2.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:freetype:freetype:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-1234FreeType: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Ausführen von beliebigem Programmcode mit den Rechten des DienstesDeutsch2017-04-27csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in FreeType ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Dienstes auszuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-04-27modified 2026-06-17

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references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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