CVE-2016-1709

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ByteArray::Get method in data/byte_array.cc in Google sfntly before 2016-06-10, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SFNT font.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 51.0.2704.106
Google Sfntly: all versions

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00028.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1485.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3637
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92053
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036428
https://crbug.com/614934
https://github.com/googlei18n/sfntly/commit/468cad540fa1b0027cad60456f53feabecdce2bc
https://github.com/googlei18n/sfntly/commit/c56b85408bab232efd7e650f0994272a174e3b92

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