CVE-2025-50951 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Fontforge

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 89.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
FontforgeDebian Fontforge
Timeline
PublishedOct 23

Description

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDfontforge/fontforge2023-01-01

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x45p-m5jm-48hc: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd↗2025-10-23
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OSV
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd↗2025-10-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
fontforge: Fontforge memory leak↗2025-10-23
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Debian
CVE-2025-50951: fontforge - FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_c...↗2025
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CVE-2025-50951 — Fontforge vulnerability | cvebase