CVE-2022-27406

Publication date 22 April 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

FreeType commit 22a0cccb4d9d002f33c1ba7a4b36812c7d4f46b5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FT_Request_Size.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freetype	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.8.1-2ubuntu2.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.5+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

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Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

the reproducer on the bug only reproduces when the code is synced with the commit in the description. But the guard is valid and it could possibly be reproduced with a different reproducer across the releases.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
freetype	Upstream: 0c2bdb0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5453-1
FreeType vulnerability
30 May 2022

USN-5528-1
FreeType vulnerabilities
20 July 2022

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-27406