CVE-2017-8287: FreeType

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• FreeType FreeType: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2017-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.