Bug 1475391 (CVE-2017-11573)

Summary: CVE-2017-11573 fontforge: Buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:39:37 UTC
FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS via a crafted otf file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3098

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:45:50 UTC
Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475398]