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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-10328 json

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cf…

published 2017-04-14 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1512

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cff/cffparse.c.

Patch / fix

  • freetype Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.7
  • freetype Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10328

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 2.3.7-25.45.8.1
  • ft2demos SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.3.7-25.45.8.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0837-1

  • freetype2 Arch Linux 2.7.1-1
  • lib32-freetype2 Arch Linux 2.7.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-251AVG-252

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-2016-10328 updated cvss 7.8

freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function

  • 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
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

3.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.