CVE-2010-4259

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2010-12-07

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Fontforge (Alexej Kryukov)

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