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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1262 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of fontforge installed on the remote host is prior to 20120731b-13. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3063 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-cb6d4788a8 advisory.

    CVE-2025-50949

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-6e501740b2 advisory.

    CVE-2025-50949

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

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

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
274672	Amazon Linux 2023 : fontforge, fontforge-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1262)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
274645	Amazon Linux 2 : fontforge, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3063 (ALAS-2025-3063)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
274360	Fedora 41 : fontforge (2025-cb6d4788a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
274357	Fedora 42 : fontforge (2025-6e501740b2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
271723	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-50949	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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