A fontforge security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2020:4844-01: Moderate: fontforge security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: fontforge security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4844-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4844
Issue date: 2020-11-03
CVE Names: CVE-2020-25690
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1. Summary:

An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

FontForge is a font editor for outline and bitmap fonts. It supports a
range of font formats, including PostScript (ASCII and binary Type 1, some
Type 3 and Type 0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2) and CID-keyed fonts.

Security Fix(es):

* fontforge: SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport
(CVE-2020-25690)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

  https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1893188 - CVE-2020-25690 fontforge: SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport

6. Package List:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):

Source:
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-debuginfo-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.i686.rpm
fontforge-debugsource-20170731-15.el8.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25690
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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