PT-2018-4583 · Harfbuzz+1 · Harfbuzz+1

Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari · Published 2018-11-15 · Updated 2022-11-28 · CVE-2015-9274

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HarfBuzz versions prior to 1.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an invalid read of two bytes and application crash. This is due to mishandling of GPOS and GSUB tables, related to files such as hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh, hb-ot-layout-gsub-table.hh, and hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos-private.hh.

Recommendations For HarfBuzz versions prior to 1.0.4, update to version 1.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-9274

USN-5746-1

Affected Products

Harfbuzz

Ubuntu

References · 10

• https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/c917965b9e6fe2b21ed6c51559673288fa3af4b7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5746-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5746-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-9274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9274 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9274 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9274 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9274 · Vendor Advisory