Bug 1751048 (CVE-2019-15785) - CVE-2019-15785 fontforge: buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c
Summary: CVE-2019-15785 fontforge: buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-15785
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: 1751050
Blocks: 1751051
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-09-11 05:40 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-09-19 20:03:06 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-11 05:40:32 UTC
A vulnerability was found in FontForge through 20190801 has a buffer overflow in PrefsUI_LoadPrefs in prefs.c.

Reference:
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/3886

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-11 05:40:51 UTC
Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1751050]

Comment 2 Parag Nemade 2019-09-18 11:23:43 UTC
Please note there is no upstream release that includes the initial commit https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/626f751752875a0ddd74b9e217b6f4828713573c#diff-6e3cb09877f1c7fef21c68da73915a60 that added warn_script_unsaved to fontview.c and prefs.c files. Then how come this CVE got reported against Fedora 30?

Comment 4 Marco Benatto 2019-09-19 20:02:32 UTC
Statement:

The versions of fontforge package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and 8 are not affected by this issue as it doesn't contain the code where the vulnerability resides.


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