CVE-2016-2052

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    CVE-2016-2052

    Published: 25 Jan 2016Last Modified: 2 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81812, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034801, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2877-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76, https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957, https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.5
    1.0.4
    1.0.3
    1.0.2
    1.0.1
    1.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High