CVE-2022-27406 (GCVE-0-2022-27406)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-22 00:00 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FT_Request_Size.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
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|---|---|
| https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/… | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-06 | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_transferred |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_transferred |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_transferred |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_transferred |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_transferred |
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