Bug 1475397 (CVE-2017-11577) - CVE-2017-11577 fontforge: Buffer over-read in getsid function
Summary: CVE-2017-11577 fontforge: Buffer over-read in getsid function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-11577
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 14:43 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-26 14:44:22 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:43:01 UTC 
FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in getsid (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or via a crafted otf file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3088
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-26 14:46:41 UTC 
Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475398]
Comment 2 Parag Nemade 2017-07-31 08:26:32 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide build fontforge-20170731-1.fc27
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