| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 : fontforge, fontforge-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1262) | 11 Nov 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 42 : fontforge (2025-6e501740b2) | 6 Nov 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 41 : fontforge (2025-cb6d4788a8) | 6 Nov 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE 16 Security Update : fontforge (openSUSE-SU-2025:20174-1) | 24 Dec 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE 16 Security Update : fontforge (openSUSE-SU-2026:20235-1) | 18 Feb 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : fontforge (SUSE-SU-2025:4353-1) | 11 Dec 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| SUSE SLES16 Security Update : fontforge (SUSE-SU-2026:20435-1) | 19 Feb 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| TencentOS Server 4: fontforge (TSSA-2025:0855) | 20 Nov 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: fontforge (UTSA-2026-006171) | 15 Mar 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-50949 | 28 Oct 202500:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2025-3063.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(274645);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/21");
script_cve_id("CVE-2025-50949");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2025-B-0189");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : fontforge, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3063 (ALAS-2025-3063)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of fontforge installed on the remote host is prior to 20120731b-13. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3063 advisory.
FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8. (CVE-2025-50949)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-3063.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-50949.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update fontforge' or
or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3063' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-50949");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/10/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/11/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:fontforge");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:fontforge-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:fontforge-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"II");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-debuginfo-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'fontforge-devel-20120731b-13.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
var cves = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "fontforge / fontforge-debuginfo / fontforge-devel");
}
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