vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-8f10fa04-cf6a-11e5-96d6-14dae9d210b8 (CVE-2016-1522): graphite2 -- code execution vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 9, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Talos reports: An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the font handling of Libgraphite. A specially crafted font can cause an out-of-bounds read potentially resulting in an information leak or denial of service. A specially crafted font can cause a buffer overflow resulting in potential code execution. An exploitable NULL pointer dereference exists in the bidirectional font handling functionality of Libgraphite. A specially crafted font can cause a NULL pointer dereference resulting in a crash.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-graphite2freebsd-upgrade-package-silgraphitefreebsd-upgrade-package-linux-thunderbird
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