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    CVE-2015-8947

    hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh in HarfBuzz before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2052.

    Published:Jan 24, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Jul 19, 2016
    EPSS Score:0.00483
    CVSS Score:7.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Harfbuzz Project
    Product
    Harfbuzz
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Extras

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-0943 (CVSS 7.5) — HarfBuzz::Shaper versions before 0.032 for Perl contains a bundled library with a null pointer dereference vul…
    CVE-2026-22693 (CVSS 5.3) — HarfBuzz is a text shaping engine. Prior to version 12.3.0, a null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in…
    CVE-2023-25193 (CVSS 7.5) — hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh in HarfBuzz through 6.0.0 allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive m…
    CVE-2022-33068 (CVSS 5.5) — An integer overflow in the component hb-ot-shape-fallback.cc of Harfbuzz v4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a De…
    CVE-2021-45931 (CVSS 6.5) — HarfBuzz 2.9.0 has an out-of-bounds write in hb_bit_set_invertible_t::set (called from hb_sparseset_t<hb_bit_s…
    CVE-2016-2052 (CVSS 7.6) — Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, a…
    CVE-2015-9274 (CVSS 6.5) — HarfBuzz before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read of two bytes and appl…

    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92039
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
    https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/f96664974774bfeb237a7274f512f64aaafb201e
    https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-146984679
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00022.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92039
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
    https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/f96664974774bfeb237a7274f512f64aaafb201e
    https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-146984679
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00022.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76

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