cve/2016/CVE-2016-10244.md

### [CVE-2016-10244](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10244)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon