Bug 1475388 – CVE-2017-11570 fontforge: Buffer over-read in umodenc function

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Bug 1475388 - (CVE-2017-11570) CVE-2017-11570 fontforge: Buffer over-read in umodenc function

Summary:	CVE-2017-11570 fontforge: Buffer over-read in umodenc function

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-11570

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1475398
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Reported:	2017-07-26 10:36 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-07-26 10:46 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 10:36:31 EDT

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

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3097

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 10:46:25 EDT

Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475398]

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