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Fedora 41: FontForge Important Memory Leak Issue CVE-2025-50949

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
FontForge updated for Fedora 41 addresses a memory leak issue as per advisory FEDORA-2025-cb6d4788a8 details.
CVE-2025-50949

Summary

FontForge (former PfaEdit) is a font editor for outline and bitmap

fonts. It supports a range of font formats, including PostScript

(ASCII and binary Type 1, some Type 3 and Type 0), TrueType, OpenType

(Type2) and CID-keyed fonts.

Update Information:

CVE-2025-50949

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Change Log

* Tue Oct 28 2025 Parag Nemade - 20230101-16 - Move to use %autosetup macro so that we will not forget to apply patches * Mon Oct 27 2025 Parag Nemade - 20230101-15 - Resolves: CVE-2025-50949

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2406131 - CVE-2025-50949 fontforge: Fontforge memory leak [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2406131

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-cb6d4788a8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: fontforge
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 20230101
Release: 16.fc41
URL: https://fontforge.org/
Summary: Outline and bitmap font editor

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