The SillMap::readFace function in FeatureMap.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, mishandles a return value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (missing initialization, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.
References
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http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177520.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00053.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/ cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2902-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2904-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246093 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1523 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-35 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-63 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1523 cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2016-02-13T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:02:11.560Z

Reserved: 2016-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1523

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-02-13T02:59:08.900

Modified: 2017-07-01T01:29:33.967

Link: CVE-2016-1523

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2016-02-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1523 - Bugzilla