CVE-2019-15785 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Fontforge

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FontforgeDebian Fontforge
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 24

Description

FontForge 20190813 through 20190820 has a buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDfontforge/fontforge20190801

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-qp2p-2wx4-5vff: FontForge through 20190801 has a buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs↗2022-05-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
fontforge: buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c↗2019-09-11
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Debian
CVE-2019-15785: fontforge - FontForge 20190813 through 20190820 has a buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs i...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-15785 fontforge: buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c [fedora-all]↗2019-09-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-15785 fontforge: buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c↗2019-09-11
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CVE-2019-15785 — Fontforge vulnerability | cvebase