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OESA-2025-2605 (CVE-2025-50949)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-10-31 11:09 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:09 – Source website

Summary

fontforge security update

Details

FontForge (former PfaEdit) 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 v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.(CVE-2025-50949)

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50949	ADVISORY

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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "fontforge-20200314-6.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "fontforge-debuginfo-20200314-6.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm",
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          "fontforge-devel-20200314-6.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "noarch": [
          "fontforge-help-20200314-6.oe2003sp4.noarch.rpm"
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        "ecosystem": "openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP4",
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  "database_specific": {
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  },
  "details": "FontForge (former PfaEdit) 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.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nFontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.(CVE-2025-50949)",
  "id": "OESA-2025-2605",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:09:43Z",
  "published": "2025-10-31T11:09:43Z",
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    },
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    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "fontforge security update",
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    "CVE-2025-50949"
  ]
}

CVE-2025-50949 (GCVE-0-2025-50949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-24 12:55

Summary

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-24 12:54 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5491

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