CVE-2016-2052

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-25 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 47.0.2526.106
harfbuzz: through 1.0.5

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00070.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81812
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034801
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2877-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76

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