CVE-2015-9274

harfbuzz: DoS due to GPOS and GSUB table mishandling

Published Nov 15, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-9116 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5746-1 HarfBuzz vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 8:43 AM
Reserved
Nov 14, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 15, 2018, 6:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:36 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 29, 2015, 12:00 AM