vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-9274: harfbuzz -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 15, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

HarfBuzz before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read of two bytes and application crash) because of GPOS and GSUB table mishandling, related to hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh, hb-ot-layout-gsub-table.hh, and hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos-private.hh.

Solution

debian-upgrade-harfbuzz
Title
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