CVE-2025-50951

Publication date 23 October 2025

Last updated 5 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Small memory leak issue

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
fontforge	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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Package	Patch details
fontforge	Upstream: dcb6efb

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H