Denial of Service Vulnerability in Libgraphite's SillMap::readFace Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Libgraphite's SillMap::readFace Function

CVE-2016-1523 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The SillMap::readFace function in FeatureMap.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, mishandles a return value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (missing initialization, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.

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