Bug 1788493 (CVE-2020-5496)

Summary: CVE-2020-5496 fontforge: heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-01-07 11:18:04 UTC
FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-08 10:31:50 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-5496