CVE-2020-5496

NameCVE-2020-5496
DescriptionFontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3754-1
Debian Bugs948231

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
fontforge (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)20120731.b-5+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:20170731~dfsg-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:20230101~dfsg-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
fontforgesourcebuster1:20170731~dfsg-1+deb10u1DLA-3754-1
fontforgesource(unstable)1:20201107~dfsg-1948231

Notes

[stretch] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085

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