CVE-2016-1522
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Memory corruption
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
Code.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 consider recursive load calls during a size check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Graphite smart font.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177520.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184623.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00058.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0258.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0594.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3479Advisory
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.htmlAdvisory