CVE-2016-2793 — 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 Buffer9 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
SIL Graphite2Mozilla FirefoxOpensuse Leap+3 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 13
Latest updateMay 13

Description

CachedCmap.cpp in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) 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 Packages6 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox44.0.2+13
▶Debiansil/graphite2< 1.3.6-1+3
▶NVDsil/graphite21.3.5
▶NVDoracle/linux5.0, 6, 7+2
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Also affects: Linux Enterprise 12.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7wx5-54h9-5c2q: CachedCmap↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-2793: CachedCmap↗2016-03-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-2793: CachedCmap↗2016-03-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2016-04-27
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Ubuntu
graphite2 vulnerabilities↗2016-03-14
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2016-03-09
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Red Hat
graphite2: multiple font parsing vulnerabilities (Mozilla MFSA 2016-37)↗2016-03-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-2793: firefox - CachedCmap.cpp in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45....↗2016
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CVE-2016-2793 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase