CVE-2022-27404 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2022-27404?

CVE-2022-27404 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 22 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

FreeType commit 1e2eb65048f75c64b68708efed6ce904c31f3b2f was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the function sfnt_init_face.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-27404?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freetype Freetype.

How do I fix CVE-2022-27404?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-27404 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-27404 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-27404, AZL-26757, AZL-9573, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-27404, GHSA-22wv-f9f6-xwwm, JLSEC-2026-457 and 1 more.