Font Parsing Vulnerability in FreeType 2

CVE-2016-10244 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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