CVE-2017-11576 (GCVE-0-2017-11576)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-23 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:12
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Summary
FontForge 20161012 does not ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in readcfftopdict (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS via a crafted otf file.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public ?
2017-07-23 00:00
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