CVE-2016-2052
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.96%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.6 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.96% probability · 60th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- harfbuzz project/harfbuzz · google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81812
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034801
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2877-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81812
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034801
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2877-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.