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GLSA-202508-03 : FontForge: Arbitrary Code Execution

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243973

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202508-03 (FontForge: Arbitrary Code Execution)

 A vulnerabilitiy has been discovered in FontForge. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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

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

Solution

All FontForge users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-gfx/fontforge-20230101-r1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202508-03

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926521

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243973

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202508-03.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/6/2025

Updated: 8/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25082

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:fontforge

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25081, CVE-2024-25082