CVE-2016-2052

Publication date 25 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	17.04 zesty	Fixed 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222
	15.10 wily	Fixed 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1219
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1111
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
harfbuzz	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
oxide-qt	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu1
	15.10 wily	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
harfbuzz	Upstream: ?id=63e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.6 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVE-2016-2052

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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Patch details

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References

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