FKIE_CVE-2017-11569

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-23 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:02
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in readttfcopyrights (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3093Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3093Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fontforge fontforge 20161012
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