Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package harfbuzz  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-HARFBUZZ-6699627
  • published29 Apr 2024
  • disclosed4 Feb 2023

Introduced: 4 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-25193  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:24.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream harfbuzz package and not the harfbuzz package as distributed by Ubuntu.

hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh in HarfBuzz through 6.0.0 allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive marks during the process of looking back for base glyphs when attaching marks.