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Moderate Security Update for FontForge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Security patch released for FontForge on RHEL 8 to mitigate CVE-2020-25690 vulnerabilities and implement necessary corrections.
An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

FontForge 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.
Security Fix(es):
* fontforge: SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport (CVE-2020-25690)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux threat security impact fontforge

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25690 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source: fontforge-20170731-15.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: fontforge-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: fontforge-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: fontforge-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: fontforge-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm fontforge-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4844-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4844
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux threat security impact fontforge

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1893188 - CVE-2020-25690 fontforge: SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport

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