Out-of-Bounds Read in platform/external/freetype (CVE-2022-27405)
Summary
Vulnerability in platform/external/freetype (CVE-2022-27405). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 13:2023-07-01 or later.
Original description
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FreeType commit 53dfdcd8198d2b3201a23c4bad9190519ba918db was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function FNT_Size_Request.
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-27405 has been found in platform/external/freetype.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade platform/external/freetype to 13:2023-07-01 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "platform/external/freetype CVE-2022-27405" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-27405 (platform/external/freetype) — CWE-125 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 13:2023-07-01 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) exists in platform/external/freetype.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of platform/external/freetype.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 13:2023-07-01.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'platform/external/freetype' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'platform/external/freetype' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
platform/external/freetypeを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade platform/external/freetype to 13:2023-07-01ステージング環境で 13:2023-07-01 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2022-27405 freetype Fixed in: 2.10.4-r2
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-27405 freetype Fixed in: 2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1
References
- advisory source.android.com
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory security.gentoo.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch android.googlesource.com
- report gitlab.freedesktop.org
- web freetype.com