Out-of-bounds Read Affecting harfbuzz package, versions <1.2.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-HARFBUZZ-1547957
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed15 Nov 2018

Introduced: 15 Nov 2018

CVE-2015-9274  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 harfbuzz to version 1.2.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream harfbuzz package and not the harfbuzz package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

HarfBuzz before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read of two bytes and application crash) because of GPOS and GSUB table mishandling, related to hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh, hb-ot-layout-gsub-table.hh, and hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos-private.hh.