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CVE-2016-10244 json

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 r…

published 2017-03-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1429

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • freetype freetype 2.7.1
  • freetype Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.3-3.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10244

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.6
  • freetype Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10244

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • freetype2 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.45.5.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.45.5.1
  • freetype2 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 2.6.3-7.15.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 2.6.3-7.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0462-1SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1

  • freetype Alpine 3.2 2.5.5-r1
  • freetype Alpine 3.3 2.6.3-r0
  • freetype Alpine 3.4 2.6.3-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-10244

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10244 updated cvss 5.9

freetype: parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freetype Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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