CVE-2020-5496 (GCVE-0-2020-5496)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:30
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Summary
FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.
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CWE
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