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CVE-2020-5496

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

Affected products

• FontForge: 20190801
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00041.html
• https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-14
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00041.html
• https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4085
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-14

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