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Ubuntu: USN-3409-1 (CVE-2017-11576): FontForge vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jul 23, 2017

Added

Sep 4, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

FontForge 20161012 does not ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in readcfftopdict (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS via a crafted otf file.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-fontforgeubuntu-upgrade-fontforge-common

References

CVE-2017-11576
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-11576
CWE-119
DEBIAN-DSA-3958
EUVD-EUVD-2017-3191
NVD-CVE-2017-11576
UBUNTU-USN-3409-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-3191

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