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CVE-2016-7969

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The wrap_lines_smart function in ass_render.c in libass before 0.13.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors, related to "0/3 line wrapping equalization."

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
• Libass Project Libass: through 0.13.3
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00068.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93358
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381960
• https://github.com/libass/libass/commit/f4f48950788b91c6a30029cc28a240b834713ea7
• https://github.com/libass/libass/releases/tag/0.13.4
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KW6DNERYHPI5Y6SQYU3XKTVSCOWMIHUC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7JJ2SGVOX6UQQIRMVC3QACJLKHE2PYN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUOUOK3VULMMZTNSCRFCNPDAPDWAVK7X/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-25
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00068.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/2

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