Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting fontforge/fontforge package, versions [,20251009)
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- published24 Oct 2025
- disclosed23 Oct 2025
- creditxiaoxiaoafeifei
Introduced: 23 Oct 2025
NewCVE-2025-50951 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade fontforge/fontforge to version 20251009 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime due to improper release of allocated memory in the utf7toutf8_copy() function. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by repeatedly triggering operations that allocate memory without proper deallocation.