Red Hat Security Advisory: fontforge security update
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in FontForge, a font editor supporting various font formats. These include command injection via crafted archives, compressed files, and filenames, as well as remote code execution through heap-based buffer overflow, use-after-free, and buffer overflow in SFD and BMP file parsing. The vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 4 Extended Update Support and related products. Red Hat has issued a security advisory with updated packages to address these issues. The overall security impact is rated as Important by Red Hat Product Security.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
FontForge contains several critical vulnerabilities: command injection via crafted archives or filenames (CVE-2024-25082, CVE-2024-25081), and remote code execution through heap-based buffer overflow in BMP parsing (CVE-2025-15279), use-after-free in SFD parsing (CVE-2025-15269), and buffer overflow in SFD parsing (CVE-2025-15275). These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely. The issues affect multiple Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and CodeReady Linux Builder. Red Hat has released updated packages to fix these vulnerabilities as detailed in advisory RHSA-2026:2566.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected systems, potentially leading to full system compromise. The vulnerabilities involve command injection and remote code execution via malformed font files or crafted filenames, posing a high security risk to systems using vulnerable FontForge versions.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated FontForge packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users of affected Red Hat products should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:2566 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these official patches is the recommended remediation. No additional vendor mitigation guidance indicates that other actions are required.
Red Hat Security Advisory: fontforge security update
Description
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in FontForge, a font editor supporting various font formats. These include command injection via crafted archives, compressed files, and filenames, as well as remote code execution through heap-based buffer overflow, use-after-free, and buffer overflow in SFD and BMP file parsing. The vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 4 Extended Update Support and related products. Red Hat has issued a security advisory with updated packages to address these issues. The overall security impact is rated as Important by Red Hat Product Security.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
FontForge contains several critical vulnerabilities: command injection via crafted archives or filenames (CVE-2024-25082, CVE-2024-25081), and remote code execution through heap-based buffer overflow in BMP parsing (CVE-2025-15279), use-after-free in SFD parsing (CVE-2025-15269), and buffer overflow in SFD parsing (CVE-2025-15275). These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely. The issues affect multiple Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and CodeReady Linux Builder. Red Hat has released updated packages to fix these vulnerabilities as detailed in advisory RHSA-2026:2566.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected systems, potentially leading to full system compromise. The vulnerabilities involve command injection and remote code execution via malformed font files or crafted filenames, posing a high security risk to systems using vulnerable FontForge versions.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated FontForge packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users of affected Red Hat products should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:2566 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these official patches is the recommended remediation. No additional vendor mitigation guidance indicates that other actions are required.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:2566
- Cve Count
- 5
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-25082","CVE-2025-15269","CVE-2025-15275","CVE-2025-15279"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a248d78e29bf47b50d651f0
Added to database: 6/6/2026, 9:13:28 PM
Last enriched: 6/6/2026, 9:20:15 PM
Last updated: 6/7/2026, 3:59:32 AM
Views: 4
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