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CVE-2015-8947

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh in HarfBuzz before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2052.

Affected products

• harfbuzz: through 1.0.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92039
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
• https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/f96664974774bfeb237a7274f512f64aaafb201e
• https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-146984679
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00022.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92039
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1

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