CVE-2025-23022

Publication date 10 January 2025

Last updated 14 April 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.2 · Medium

Score breakdown

FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freetype 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Notes

0xnishit

fuzzing report for a seven year old copy of FreeType https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1312 version <=2.8.1 (which is bionic or earlier) might be affected

mdeslaur

need to check if commit listed below fixes the issue, as suggested in the upstream bug.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
freetype

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.2 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H