CVE-2017-11573 — Out-of-bounds Read in Fontforge

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.28%
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 buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (parsettf.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 Packages2 packages

▶NVDfontforge/fontforge20161012

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-95mx-vpjp-57vh: FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (parsettf↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-11573: FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (parsettf↗2017-07-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
fontforge: Buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName function↗2017-06-14
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Debian
CVE-2017-11573: fontforge - FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFont...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11573 fontforge: Buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName function↗2017-07-26
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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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