FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3754 advisory.

  - FontForge 20190801 has a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData in sfd.c. (CVE-2020-5395)

  - FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.
    (CVE-2020-5496)

  - Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows command injection via crafted filenames. (CVE-2024-25081)

  - Splinefont in FontForge through 20230101 allows command injection via crafted archives or compressed     files. (CVE-2024-25082)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202004-14 (FontForge: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FontForge. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted font       using FontForge, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with       the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for fontforge fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-5395: Fixed a use-after-free in     SFD_GetFontMetaData() (bsc#1160220).

  - CVE-2020-5496: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in     Type2NotDefSplines() (bsc#1160236).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for fontforge fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-5395: Fixed a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData() (bsc#1160220).

CVE-2020-5496: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in Type2NotDefSplines() (bsc#1160236).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
191733	Debian dla-3754 : fontforge - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
136213	GLSA-202004-14 : FontForge: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
133174	openSUSE Security Update : fontforge (openSUSE-2020-89)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
133038	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : fontforge (SUSE-SU-2020:0118-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2020-5496

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Tenable Plugins

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critical

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