CVE-2010-4259: Alexej Kryukov Fontforge

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 10.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Alexej Kryukov Fontforge: version 20100501 only

Published 2010-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.