Vigil@nce - RHEL 8: denial of service via fontforge
November 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: RHEL.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/11/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via fontforge of RHEL 8, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
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