Out-of-bounds Read Affecting harfbuzz/harfbuzz package, versions [,1.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HARFBUZZHARFBUZZ-2366111
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade harfbuzz/harfbuzz to version 1.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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