From c36b95c57f85a34ad85ca2be34f62ff1100d52f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmet Furkan Kavraz
 <55850855+ahmetfurkankavraz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:23:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix CVE-2025-15270: Heap buffer overflow in SFD kern class
 parsing (#5743)

Fixes: CVE-2025-15270 | ZDI-25-1194 | ZDI-CAN-28563

Co-authored-by: Ahmet Furkan Kavraz <kavraz@amazon.com>

CVE: CVE-2025-15270
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/commit/d01333a5bfa2ac4ed698c24b323d02107deacad7]
Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
---
 fontforge/sfd.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fontforge/sfd.c b/fontforge/sfd.c
index 940627a3b..99d92b051 100644
--- a/fontforge/sfd.c
+++ b/fontforge/sfd.c
@@ -8276,6 +8276,10 @@ bool SFD_GetFontMetaData( FILE *sfd,
 	for ( i=classstart; i<kc->first_cnt; ++i ) {
 	  if (kernclassversion < 3) {
 	    getint(sfd,&temp);
+	    if (temp < 0) {
+	      LogError(_("Corrupted SFD file: Invalid kern class name length %d. Aborting load."), temp);
+	      return false;
+	    }
 	    kc->firsts[i] = malloc(temp+1); kc->firsts[i][temp] = '\0';
 	    nlgetc(sfd);	/* skip space */
 	    fread(kc->firsts[i],1,temp,sfd);
@@ -8293,6 +8297,10 @@ bool SFD_GetFontMetaData( FILE *sfd,
 	for ( i=1; i<kc->second_cnt; ++i ) {
 	  if (kernclassversion < 3) {
 	    getint(sfd,&temp);
+	    if (temp < 0) {
+	      LogError(_("Corrupted SFD file: Invalid kern class name length %d. Aborting load."), temp);
+	      return false;
+	    }
 	    kc->seconds[i] = malloc(temp+1); kc->seconds[i][temp] = '\0';
 	    nlgetc(sfd);	/* skip space */
 	    fread(kc->seconds[i],1,temp,sfd);
