Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in FontForge 20161012: Exploiting strnmatch in char.c for DoS or Code Execution

Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in FontForge 20161012: Exploiting strnmatch in char.c for DoS or Code Execution

CVE-2017-11575 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in strnmatch (char.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file, related to a call from the readttfcopyrights function in parsettf.c.

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