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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2020.1539
fontforge security update
30 April 2020
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: fontforge
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 8
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Modify Arbitrary Files -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2020-5395
Reference: ESB-2020.0563
ESB-2020.0179
Original Bulletin:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1921
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: fontforge security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1921-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1921
Issue date: 2020-04-28
CVE Names: CVE-2020-5395
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1. Summary:
An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
FontForge is a font editor for outline and bitmap fonts. It supports a
range of font formats, including PostScript (ASCII and binary Type 1, some
Type 3 and Type 0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2) and CID-keyed fonts.
Security Fix(es):
* fontforge: out-of-bounds write in SFD_GetFontMetaData function in sfd.c
(CVE-2020-5395)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1790041 - CVE-2020-5395 fontforge: out-of-bounds write in SFD_GetFontMetaData function in sfd.c
6. Package List:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
Source:
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.aarch64.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-14.el8.aarch64.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-14.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.s390x.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-14.el8.s390x.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-14.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-20170731-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-14.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-14.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-14.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5395
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
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