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Ubuntu: USN-2902-1 (CVE-2016-1521): graphite2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2902-1 (CVE-2016-1521): graphite2 vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not validate a certain skip operation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphite2-3

References

  • USN-2902-1
  • USN-2904-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0779
  • RHSA-2016:0197
  • RHSA-2016:0258
  • RHSA-2016:0594
  • DSA-3479
  • 82991
  • GLSA-201701-35
  • GLSA-201701-63
  • CVE-2016-1521
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