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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:2111-1 Moderate: FontForge Use-After-Free Risk

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Calendar Grey November 29, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A small security patch for fontforge on openSUSE Leap 15.1 addresses potential use-after-free and crashing vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for fontforge fixes the following issues:

- fix for Use-after-free (heap) in the SFD_GetFontMetaData() function and

the crash (bsc#1178308 CVE-2020-25690).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2111=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

fontforge-20170731-lp151.4.6.1

fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-lp151.4.6.1

fontforge-debugsource-20170731-lp151.4.6.1

fontforge-devel-20170731-lp151.4.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

fontforge-doc-20170731-lp151.4.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25690.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5395.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1160220

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178308

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2111-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 .

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