CVE-2020-5496

HIGH 8.8CVE-2020-5496 · Published 03/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-5496 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting fontforge (fontforge).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
fontforge fontforge	`= 20190801`	No fix yet

FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

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Patched versions

= 20190801

No fix yet

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