FKIE_CVE-2015-9274

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-11-15 06:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:36
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/c917965b9e6fe2b21ed6c51559673288fa3af4b7Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/c917965b9e6fe2b21ed6c51559673288fa3af4b7Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
harfbuzz_project harfbuzz *
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