CVE-2022-27405

Publication date 22 April 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

FreeType commit 53dfdcd8198d2b3201a23c4bad9190519ba918db was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FNT_Size_Request.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freetype	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	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

method that has the vulnerable code, ft_open_face_internal was added in version 2.7.1, commit: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/5743df77 and the reproducer from the issue only reproduces when the commit from the description is included, but, I'm not sure if it is a side-effect from this commit or not.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freetype	Upstream: 22a0ccc

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