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OESA-2021-1104 (CVE-2020-25690)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-04-07 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

fontforge security update

Details

Mozilla fontforge is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

Security Fix(es):

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in FontForge in versions before 20200314 while parsing SFD files containing certain LayerCount tokens. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the memory allocated on the heap, causing the application to crash or execute arbitrary code. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.(CVE-2020-25690)

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25690	ADVISORY

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CVE-2020-25690 (GCVE-0-2020-25690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-23 03:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-119

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1893188	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	fontforge	Affected: fontforge before 20200314

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