Detections
Analytics

openSUSE 16 Security Update : fontforge (openSUSE-SU-2025:20174-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279665

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025:20174-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-50949: Fixed memory leak in function DlgCreate8 (bsc#1252652).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected fontforge and / or fontforge-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1252652

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50949

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279665

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20174-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/24/2025

Updated: 12/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-50949

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:fontforge, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:fontforge-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-50949

IAVB: 2025-B-0189