Bug 1475386 (CVE-2017-11569) - CVE-2017-11569 fontforge: Heap-buffer over-read in readttfcopyrights function
Summary: CVE-2017-11569 fontforge: Heap-buffer over-read in readttfcopyrights function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-11569
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1475398
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-26 14:35 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-26 14:43:53 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:35:13 UTC 
FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in readttfcopyrights (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS via a crafted otf file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3093
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:46:33 UTC 
Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475398]
Comment 2 Parag Nemade 2017-07-31 08:27:17 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide build fontforge-20170731-1.fc27
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