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source: fontforge (main)
version: 1:20230101~dfsg-8
maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Hideki Yamane [DMD] – Daniel Kahn Gillmor [DMD] – Davide Viti [DMD] – Anthony Fok [DMD] – Vasudev Kamath [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1
o-o-sec: 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1
oldstable: 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1
old-sec: 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1
stable: 1:20230101~dfsg-4
testing: 1:20230101~dfsg-8
unstable: 1:20230101~dfsg-8

versioned links

1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:20230101~dfsg-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:20230101~dfsg-8: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

fontforge (10 bugs: 0, 9, 1, 0)
fontforge-common (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
fontforge-doc (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
fontforge-extras
fontforge-nox (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libfontforge4
python3-fontforge

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 20251009 high

A new upstream version 20251009 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-10-12 Last update: 2025-10-25 01:30

2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-50949: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Created: 2025-10-24 Last update: 2025-10-24 21:31

2 security issues in sid high

There are 2 open security issues in sid.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-50949: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Created: 2025-10-24 Last update: 2025-10-24 21:31

2 security issues in forky high

There are 2 open security issues in forky.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-50949: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Created: 2025-10-24 Last update: 2025-10-24 21:31

2 security issues in bullseye high

There are 2 open security issues in bullseye.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-50949: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Created: 2025-10-24 Last update: 2025-10-24 21:31

2 security issues in bookworm high

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-50949: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component DlgCreate8.
CVE-2025-50951: FontForge v20230101 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the utf7toutf8_copy function at /fontforge/sfd.c.

Created: 2025-10-24 Last update: 2025-10-24 21:31

lintian reports 16 warnings normal

Lintian reports 16 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-09-23 Last update: 2025-09-23 04:31

debian/patches: 3 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 7 debian patches available in version 1:20230101~dfsg-8 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

3 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2024-03-12 Last update: 2025-09-23 07:02

news

[2025-09-28] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-22] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-8 (source) into unstable (Bastian Germann) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2025-09-22] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-17] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-7 (source) into unstable (Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-09-17] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-6 (source) into unstable (Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-09-11] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-04] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Alexandre Detiste)
[2024-09-11] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-06] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2024-07-08] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-30] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2024-06-26] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2024-04-29] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-30] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-23] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
[2024-03-23] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
[2024-03-19] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1 (source) into oldstable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
[2024-03-19] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
[2024-03-11] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1.1 (source) into unstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2024-03-07] Accepted fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-1+deb10u1 (source) into oldoldstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2023-01-28] fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-18] Accepted fontforge 1:20230101~dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2022-06-21] fontforge 1:20220308~dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-06-16] Accepted fontforge 1:20220308~dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2021-02-01] Removed 1:20190801~dfsg-5 from unstable (Debian FTP Masters)
[2021-01-21] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-21] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-15] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2021-01-15] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2020-12-07] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

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bugs [bug history graph]

all: 19 20
RC: 1
I&N: 15 16
M&W: 3
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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