| Name | CVE-2020-5395 |
| Description | FontForge 20190801 has a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData in sfd.c. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 948231 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fontforge (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1:20170731~dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye, sid | 1:20201107~dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| fontforge | source | (unstable) | 1:20201107~dfsg-1 | | | 948231 |
Notes
[buster] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4084
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/048a91e2682c1a8936ae34dbc7bd70291ec05410
Additional patch required (to not open up CVE-2020-25690):
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/b96273acc691ac8a36c6a8dd4de8e6edd7eaae59