[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#948231: fontforge: CVE-2020-5395 CVE-2020-5496

[Markus Koschany]

Package: fontforge
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerabilities were published for fontforge.

CVE-2020-5395[0]:
| FontForge 20190801 has a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData in
| sfd.c.


CVE-2020-5496[1]:
| FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the
| Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.


If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5395
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5395
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5496
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5496

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,

Markus

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