CVE-2025-50949

Publication date 23 October 2025

Last updated 5 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.

Why is this CVE low priority?

Small memory leak issue

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
fontforge	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
fontforge	Upstream: da98987

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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