vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2792): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
Mar 13, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The graphite2::Slot::getAttr function in Slot.cpp in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Graphite smart font, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2800.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-firefoxubuntu-upgrade-libgraphite2-3ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

References

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