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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1709 Heap-buffer-overflow in sfntly

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1709 Heap-buffer-overflow in sfntly

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ByteArray::Get method in data/byte_array.cc in Google sfntly before 2016-06-10, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SFNT font.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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