CVE-2017-11568

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jul 23, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-11568: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix