CVE-2016-1969 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
SIL Graphite2Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedMar 13
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Graphite smart font.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox44.0.2+12
▶Debiansil/graphite2< 1.3.6-1+3
▶NVDsil/graphite21.3.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-29w8-qmxg-g64x: The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-1969: The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1↗2016-03-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-1969: The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1↗2016-03-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
mozilla: out-of-bounds write with malicious font in graphite2 (MFSA 2016-38)↗2016-03-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-1969: firefox - The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox befo...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5398 stored XSS in JBoss BPM suite business process editor↗2016-07-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1969 mozilla: out-of-bounds write with malicious font in graphite2 (MFSA 2016-38)↗2016-03-14
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CVE-2016-1969 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase