CVE-2016-2052
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a…
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- Chrome
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.96% · top 38% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-76 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-2877-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1034801 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 81812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3067-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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