MGASA-2016-0077

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    MGASA-2016-0077

    Published: 17 Feb 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated graphite2/firefox packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Multiple vulnerabilities in the graphite2 font library can result in information disclosure, denial-of-service (application crashes), or code execution via out-of-bounds reads, a NULL pointer dereference, and a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526). Firefox includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has been updated in Firefox ESR 38.6.1.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0077.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17780, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0057/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0060/, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/, http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-14/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/, https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3477

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/firefox?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -38.6.1-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    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
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