CVE-2010-4259

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long CHARSET_REGISTRY header in a BDF font file.

Affected products

Alexej Kryukov Fontforge: 20100501

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052201.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052219.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/8
http://secunia.com/advisories/42577
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2253
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15732
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45162
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3200
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537

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