CVE-2025-27363

CVSS 3.1 Score 8.1 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Mar 11, 2025

Updated: Apr 2, 2025

CWE ID 787

Summary

CVE-2025-27363 is a critical vulnerability affecting FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below. The issue arises when the software attempts to parse specific font structures, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A signed short value is incorrectly assigned to an unsigned long variable, resulting in buffer overflow. Subsequently, up to 6 signed long integers are written outside the allocated heap buffer. This vulnerability could potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and has been reportedly exploited in the wild.

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FreeType

Affected Vendors

Freetype

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/3mC-K4
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27363
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27363

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