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openSUSE 15.6: 2025:1199-1 moderate: fontforge command injection fix

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2025
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Stay informed about the latest security patch for fontforge in openSUSE, which resolves a critical command injection vulnerability.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for fontforge fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2017-17521: Fixed command injection in help function uiutil.c

(bsc#1073014)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity command injection openSUSE patch instructions fontforge

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-1199=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP6-2025-1199=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* fontforge-debuginfo-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* fontforge-devel-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* fontforge-debugsource-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* fontforge-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* fontforge-doc-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* fontforge-debuginfo-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* fontforge-debugsource-20200314-150200.3.9.1

* fontforge-20200314-150200.3.9.1

References

* bsc#1073014

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17521.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073014

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1199-1
Release Date: 2025-04-11T08:41:18Z
Affected Products: * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity command injection openSUSE patch instructions fontforge

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