Out-of-bounds Read Affecting fontforge-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FONTFORGEDEVEL-1362100
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Jun 2017

Introduced: 14 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-11577  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 fontforge-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fontforge-devel package and not the fontforge-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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