FKIE_CVE-2023-25193

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-02-04 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:40
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/e1f324aa681af54101c1f2d173d92adb80e37088/DEPS#361Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/2822b589bc837fae6f66233e2cf2eef0f6ce8470/src/hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hhThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/85be877925ddbf34f74a1229f3ca1716bb6170dcPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWCHWSICWVZSAXP2YAXM65JC2GR53547/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZ5M2GSAIHFPLHYJXUPQ2QDJCLWXUGO3/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0006/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/e1f324aa681af54101c1f2d173d92adb80e37088/DEPS#361Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/2822b589bc837fae6f66233e2cf2eef0f6ce8470/src/hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hhThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/85be877925ddbf34f74a1229f3ca1716bb6170dcPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWCHWSICWVZSAXP2YAXM65JC2GR53547/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZ5M2GSAIHFPLHYJXUPQ2QDJCLWXUGO3/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0006/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
harfbuzz_project harfbuzz *
fedoraproject fedora 36
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