What is CVE-2017-11576?

CVE-2017-11576 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fontforge, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-11576?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Fontforge

CVE-2017-11576

FontForge 20161012 does not ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in readcfftopdict (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS via a crafted otf file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.007 (49.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Fontforge — versions 20161012
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11576?: CVE-2017-11576 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fontforge, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-11576?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.