CVE-2016-1523

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox <43.0 & ESR 38.x <38.6.1 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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 (25)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0258.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0594.html

[Various Sources] http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177520.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184623.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00053.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00055.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00052.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00058.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00088.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3479

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-14.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035017

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2902-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2904-1

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246093

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82991

... and 5 more

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0134

EPSS Percentile 79.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (19)

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

mozilla/firefox

... and 4 more

Timeline

Published Feb 13, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026