Security advisory

{
  "id": "b8e797773314dca5feac3b25c819bee3e178b71265dc9e60209205678caa34ef",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11575",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-11575",
    "summary": "FontForge 20161012 is vulnerable to a buffer over-read in strnmatch (char.c) resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted otf file, related to a call from the readttfcopyrights function in parsettf.c.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-11575",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-11575",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-11575"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "20161012"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "20161012"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:20161012:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "20161012"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "20161012"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "20161012"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11575.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:34.836914082Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/3096"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-11575",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441339,
  "published_at": "2017-07-23T22:29:00.447+00:00"
}