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CVE-2016-1969

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Graphite smart font.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 44.0.2; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+6)
• Sil Graphite2: through 1.3.5

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-38.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242322
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-38.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242322
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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