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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8947: harfbuzz -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 19, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-harfbuzz
Title
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