RHSA-2026:2213 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for fontforge is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

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: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in BMP file parsing (CVE-2025-15279)
• fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via Use-After-Free in SFD file parsing (CVE-2025-15269)
• fontforge: FontForge: Arbitrary code execution via SFD file parsing buffer overflow (CVE-2025-15275)

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.6 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2426421 - CVE-2025-15279 fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via heap-based buffer overflow in BMP file parsing
• BZ - 2426423 - CVE-2025-15269 fontforge: FontForge: Remote Code Execution via Use-After-Free in SFD file parsing
• BZ - 2426429 - CVE-2025-15275 fontforge: FontForge: Arbitrary code execution via SFD file parsing buffer overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2025-15269
• CVE-2025-15275
• CVE-2025-15279

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important