CVE-2016-10328

Publication date 14 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freetype	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.6.3-3ubuntu2.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 2.6.3-3ubuntu1.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.7
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.4.8-1ubuntu2.5

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3263-1
FreeType vulnerability
21 April 2017