Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-4259

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via ...

Debian DSA-2253-1 : fontforge - buffer overflow

Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in FontForge, a font editor. When processed a crafted Bitmap Distribution Format BDF FontForge could crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running FontForge. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2253-1] fontforge security update

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[SECURITY] [DSA 2253-1] fontforge security update

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Fedora Update for fontforge FEDORA-2010-18577

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Fedora Update for fontforge FEDORA-2010-18573

Check for the Version of fontforge OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for fontforge FEDORA-2010-18573 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

Fedora 13 : fontforge-20090923-4.fc13 (2010-18577)

fixes CVE-2010-4259 crash. See bug for proof of concept to test with. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 14 : fontforge-20100501-5.fc14 (2010-18573)

Fixes CVE-2010-4259 crash. See bug for proof of concept test. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

CVE-2010-4259

FontForge 20100501 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by a crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY header in a BDF font file, potentially allowing remote code execution or a denial of service. Public advisories confirm the issue and provide patches/upgrades: Debian DSA-2253-1 recommends up...