What is CVE-2016-10244?

CVE-2016-10244 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-06.

How severe is CVE-2016-10244?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-10244 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Out-of-bounds Read in Freetype

CVE-2016-10244

The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-03-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.032 (87.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freetype
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/ChangeLog (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1038090 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-14 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 (Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97405 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3839 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10244?: CVE-2016-10244 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freetype, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-06.
How severe is CVE-2016-10244?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-10244 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.