CVE-2015-9274 — Out-of-bounds Read in Project Harfbuzz

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption7 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Harfbuzz Project HarfbuzzDebian Harfbuzz
Timeline
PublishedNov 15
Latest updateNov 28

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/harfbuzz< harfbuzz 1.2.6-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianharfbuzz_project/harfbuzz< 1.2.6-1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-95rc-6f28-2jcq: HarfBuzz before 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-9274: HarfBuzz before 1↗2018-11-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
HarfBuzz vulnerability↗2022-11-28
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Red Hat
harfbuzz: DoS due to GPOS and GSUB table mishandling↗2015-09-29
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Debian
CVE-2015-9274: harfbuzz - HarfBuzz before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (inva...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-9274 harfbuzz: DoS due to GPOS and GSUB table mishandling↗2018-11-21
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