CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-2052

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data. An example is a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc.

Risk Assessment

These vulnerabilities may lead to denial of service, affecting application availability and potentially being exploited for further attacks.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update HarfBuzz to version 1.0.6 or later and to update Google Chrome to version 48.0.2564.82 or later to mitigate the risk.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS