Out-of-bounds read and application crash vulnerability in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4

CVE-2016-1521 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not validate a certain skip operation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.

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