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SUSE: 2019:2236-1 Moderate: fontforge Buffer Over-Read Issues

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch for fontforge, correcting various moderate vulnerabilities along with detailed installation guidelines provided.
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for fontforge fixes the following security issues: fontforge was updated to 20170731, fixings lots of bugs and security issues. - CVE-2017-11568: Heap-based buffer over-read in PSCharStringToSplines (bsc#1050161) - CVE-2017-11569: Heap-based buffer over-read in readttfcopyrights (bsc#1050181) - CVE-2017-11571: Stack-based buffer overflow in addnibble (bsc#1050185) - CVE-2017-11572: Heap-based buffer over-read in readcfftopdicts (bsc#1050187) - CVE-2017-11573: Over-read in ValidatePostScriptFontName (bsc#1050193) - CVE-2017-11574: Heap-based buffer overflow in readcffset (bsc#1050194) - CVE-2017-11575: Buffer over-read in strnmatch (bsc#1050195) - CVE-2017-11576: Ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpycall in readcfftopdict (bsc#1050196)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SUSE buffer over-read patch instructions heap-based overflow fontforge

References

#1050161 #1050181 #1050185 #1050187 #1050193

#1050194 #1050195 #1050196 #1050200

Cross- CVE-2017-11568 CVE-2017-11569 CVE-2017-11571

CVE-2017-11572 CVE-2017-11573 CVE-2017-11574

CVE-2017-11575 CVE-2017-11576 CVE-2017-11577

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11568.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11569.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11571.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11572.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11573.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11574.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11575.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11576.html

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2236-1
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SUSE buffer over-read patch instructions heap-based overflow fontforge

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