Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package fontforge (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2504-FONTFORGE-9833004
- published26 Apr 2025
- disclosed23 Jul 2017
Introduced: 23 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11573 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fontforge package and not the fontforge package as distributed by Ubuntu.
FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.