PT-2016-1423 · Mozilla+5 · Graphite 2+7

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Published

2016-03-07

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2016-2796

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Graphite 2 versions prior to 1.3.6 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.7
Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the graphite2::vm::Machine::Code::Code function. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted Graphite smart font, potentially leading to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.
Recommendations For Graphite 2 versions prior to 1.3.6, update to version 1.3.6 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 45.0, update to version 45.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.7, update to version 38.7 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1277
ALT-PU-2016-1454
ALT-PU-2016-1478
BDU:2016-00724
CESA-2016_0373
CESA-2016_0460
CVE-2016-2796
DSA-3510-1
DSA-3515-1
DSA-3520-1
MGASA-2016-0097
MGASA-2016-0105
MGASA-2016-0115
OPENSUSE-SU-2016:1769-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016:1778-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0731-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0733-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0876-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0894-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1767-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1778-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2016:0373
RHSA-2016:0460
RHSA-2016_0373
RHSA-2016_0460
SUSE-SU-2016:0727-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0777-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0909-1
USN-2917-1
USN-2917-2
USN-2917-3
USN-2927-1
USN-2934-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Centos
Firefox Esr
Graphite 2
Firefox
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu