6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.166 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.0%
Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute
arbitrary code via a long CHARSET_REGISTRY header in a BDF font file.
Author | Note |
---|---|
jdstrand | stack protections in 8.04 LTS and later should reduce this to a DoS |
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 11.04 | noarch | fontforge | < 0.0.20100501-4ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 11.10 | noarch | fontforge | < 0.0.20100501-4ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | fontforge | < 0.0.20100501-4ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 12.10 | noarch | fontforge | < 0.0.20100501-4ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 13.04 | noarch | fontforge | < 0.0.20100501-4ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |