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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-FONTFORGE-11743383
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed23 Jul 2017

Introduced: 23 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in addnibble (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.