Medium: fontforge

Issue Overview:

An out-of-bounds write was discovered in fontforge while parsing SFD files containing very large LayerCount tokens. The flaw allows an attacker to overwrite data before a buffer allocated on the heap, thus causing the application to crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-5395)

Affected Packages:

fontforge

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update fontforge to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.aarch64  
    fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.aarch64  
    fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.i686  
    fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.i686  
    fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.x86_64  
    fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.x86_64  
    fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-5395

Mitre: CVE-2020-5395