glsa-202004-14.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202004-14">
  <title>FontForge: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FontForge, the worst of
    which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">fontforge</product>
  <announced>2020-04-30</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-04-30</revised>
  <bug>706778</bug>
  <bug>715808</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/fontforge" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">20200314</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">20200314</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>FontForge is a PostScript font editor and converter.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FontForge. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted font
      using FontForge, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with
      the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All FontForge users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-gfx/fontforge-20200314"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15785">CVE-2019-15785</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5395">CVE-2020-5395</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5496">CVE-2020-5496</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-04-01T20:32:15Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-04-30T23:00:58Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>