High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 23, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-11575

Description

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in strnmatch (char.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file, related to a call from the readttfcopyrights function in parsettf.c.

Affected products

Fontforge/Fontforge
cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:20161012:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3096nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958nvd

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