Out-of-Bounds Affecting fontforge package, versions <0.0.20100501-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.99% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-FONTFORGE-294842
  • published7 Dec 2010
  • disclosed7 Dec 2010

Introduced: 7 Dec 2010

CVE-2010-4259  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 fontforge to version 0.0.20100501-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fontforge package and not the fontforge package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long CHARSET_REGISTRY header in a BDF font file.

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