CVE-2024-56520 (GCVE-0-2024-56520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:32
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Summary
An issue was discovered in tc-lib-pdf-font before 2.6.4, as used in TCPDF before 6.8.0 and other products. Fonts are mishandled, e.g., FontBBox for Type 1 and TrueType fonts is misparsed.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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tecnick tcpdf Affected: 0 , < 6.8.0 (semver)
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