CVE-2020-5496: FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

PriorityP341high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.37%

81.9th percentile

FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	fontforge	< fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-1 (bookworm)	fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-1 (bookworm)
fontforge	fontforge	—	—
fontforge	fontforge	>= 0 < 1:20201107~dfsg-1	1:20201107~dfsg-1
fontforge	fontforge	>= 0 < 1:20201107~dfsg-1	1:20201107~dfsg-1
fontforge	fontforge	>= 0 < 1:20201107~dfsg-1	1:20201107~dfsg-1
fontforge	fontforge	>= 0 < 1:20201107~dfsg-1	1:20201107~dfsg-1
opensuse	leap	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8HIGH

vendor_redhat8.8HIGH

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