Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38651

Out-of-bounds read in FontForge - CVE-2017-11570

Published: July 24, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38651

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11570

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: fontforge.org

Affected software:
FontForge

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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

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