CVE-2016-1522

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Code.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not consider recursive load calls during a size check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Graphite smart font.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Mozilla Firefox: 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+7)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 38.5.1
Sil Graphite2: 1.2.4

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177520.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184623.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00058.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0258.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0594.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3479
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-14.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82991

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