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Ubuntu: USN-3409-1 (CVE-2017-11577): FontForge vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3409-1 (CVE-2017-11577): FontForge vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/04/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in getsid (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-fontforge
  • ubuntu-upgrade-fontforge-common

References

  • USN-3409-1
  • DSA-3958
  • CVE-2017-11577

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