CVE-2016-2799

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% 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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the graphite2::Slot::setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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 (+7)
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 5.0, 6, 7
Sil Graphite2: through 1.3.5
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510

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