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CVE-2017-11571

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Date: July 23, 2017

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in addnibble (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11571

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958

Url: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3087

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-11571

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11571

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11571

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-11571

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 20170730

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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