| Name | CVE-2020-5496 |
| Description | FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3754-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 948231 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fontforge (PTS) | buster | 1:20170731~dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1:20170731~dfsg-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:20201107~dfsg-4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:20230101~dfsg-1 | fixed |
| trixie, bookworm (security) | 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - fontforge <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085