CVE-2022-27404

Publication date 22 April 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function sfnt_init_face.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freetype	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.8.1-2ubuntu2.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

vulnerable code was actually introduced in commit https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/63765a8f (version 2.8), the commit in the description is the commit used to sync and test the reproducer.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freetype	Upstream: 53dfdcd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H