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Ubuntu: USN-5746-1 (CVE-2015-9274): HarfBuzz vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5746-1 (CVE-2015-9274): HarfBuzz vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/15/2018
Created
12/01/2022
Added
11/29/2022
Modified
11/15/2024

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(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libharfbuzz-bin
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libharfbuzz0b

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