Bug 2406046 (CVE-2025-50951)
| Summary: | CVE-2025-50951 fontforge: Fontforge memory leak | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | --- | |
| Doc Text: |
A memory leak flaw has been discovered in the Font Forge project. The utf7toutf8_copy function does not properly free memory and repeated use may exhaust system memory resulting in the host operating system terminating the process.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2025-10-28 08:57:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2406132, 2406134 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2025-10-23 16:01:37 UTC
The code that introduced this CVE that code does not exist in released reported version of fontforge-20230101. That code is added later in commit https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/ba9f786e09ef58eae512e488a71469656fe4a269#diff-16b1c2155649c22d7b2979879042035b4d125ade5143275ca812fc9900289c3e |