Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting fontforge/fontforge package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FONTFORGEFONTFORGE-14746511
  • published31 Dec 2025
  • disclosed31 Dec 2025
  • creditvolticks

Introduced: 31 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-15277  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for fontforge/fontforge.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow via the parsing process of scanlines within SGI files. An attacker can execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process by enticing a user to open a specially crafted file or visit a malicious page.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1