CVE-2020-5496

HIGH

FontForge 20190801 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-14
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 42.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
fontforge/fontforge 20190801
opensuse/leap 15.1
Published Jan 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026