CVE-2017-11575

HIGH

FontForge 20161012 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in strnmatch (char.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file, related to a call from the readttfcopyrights function in parsettf.c.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3096

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
fontforge/fontforge 20161012
Published Jul 23, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026