CVE-2017-11568 — Out-of-bounds Read in Fontforge

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FontforgeDebian Fontforge
Timeline
PublishedJul 23
Latest updateMay 13

Description

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines (psread.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/fontforge< fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianfontforge/fontforge< 1:20170731~dfsg-1+3
▶Ubuntufontforge/fontforge< 20120731.b-5ubuntu0.1
▶NVDfontforge/fontforge20161012

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m63x-8w52-mmx9: FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines (psread↗2022-05-13
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OSV
fontforge vulnerabilities↗2017-09-04
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OSV
CVE-2017-11568: FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines (psread↗2017-07-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
FontForge vulnerabilities↗2017-09-04
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Red Hat
fontforge: Heap-buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines function↗2017-06-14
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Debian
CVE-2017-11568: fontforge - FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in PSCharStrin...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11568 CVE-2017-11569 CVE-2017-11570 CVE-2017-11571 CVE-2017-11572 CVE-2017-11573 CVE-2017-11574 CVE-2017-11575 CVE-2017-11576 CVE-2017-11577 fontforge: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-07-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11568 fontforge: Heap-buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines function↗2017-07-26
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CVE-2017-11568 — Out-of-bounds Read in Debian Fontforge | cvebase