PT-2016-1130

CVE-2016-2052

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Published

2016-01-15

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Updated

2017-08-31

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.6
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HarfBuzz versions prior to 1.0.6 Google Chrome versions prior to 48.0.2564.82
Description The issue is related to multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the HarfBuzz library and Google Chrome browser, caused by errors in the code. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data. A specific example of the issue is a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc.
Recommendations For HarfBuzz versions prior to 1.0.6, update to version 1.0.6 or later to resolve the issue. For Google Chrome versions prior to 48.0.2564.82, update to version 48.0.2564.82 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-1029
MGASA-2016-0264
RHSA-2016:0072
RHSA-2016_0072
SUSE-SU-2017:1821-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2315-1
USN-2877-1
USN-3067-1
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