Denial of service in fontforge (Ubuntu package) - CVE-2017-11576
Published: September 5, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU8109
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11576
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition or execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an error when ensuring a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in readcfftopdict (parsettf.c). A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted otf file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to an error when ensuring a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in readcfftopdict (parsettf.c). A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted otf file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
fontforge (Ubuntu package)
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11576
Update to the latest version.