Out-of-bounds Read Affecting fontforge package, versions <1:20170731~dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FONTFORGE-5680337
  • published23 Jul 2017
  • disclosed23 Jul 2017

Introduced: 23 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 fontforge to version 1:20170731~dfsg-1 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:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in readcfftopdicts (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.