RHSA-2020:3966 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: fontforge security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 30, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

FontForge 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: out-of-bounds write in SFD_GetFontMetaData function in sfd.c (CVE-2020-5395)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:3966 — Red Hat Security Advisory: fontforge security update | PulseLinux