CVE-2010-4259
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 10.9%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long CHARSET_REGISTRY header in a BDF font file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 10.9% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4232)
- Published
- December 7, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4232 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- alexej kryukov / fontforge
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605537(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052201.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052219.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/5(Exploit)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/8(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42577
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2253
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15732
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45162
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3200
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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