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CVE-2017-11572

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in readcfftopdicts (parsettf.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file.

Affected products

• FontForge: 20161012

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958
• https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3092
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3958
• https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3092

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