PT-2016-6179
CVE-2016-4852
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Published
2016-09-12
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Updated
2016-11-28
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.5
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
YoruFukurou (NightOwl) versions prior to 2.85
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted emoji character sequence. This is because YoruFukurou relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers, which is missing from the CoreText CTFramesetter API on OS X 10.9.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 2.85, update to version 2.85 or later to resolve the issue.
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