| Name | CVE-2025-50949 |
| Description | FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1118748 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fontforge (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1:20230101~dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 1:20230101~dfsg-8 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| fontforge | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1118748 |
Notes
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5491
Fixed by: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/da98987fa8c896fce9a7813923f4f1c75b0d8cd3 (20251009)