CVE-2016-2052

high

Published 2016-01-25 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

84%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.2.6-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.2.6-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
harfbuzz_project	harfbuzz	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.5"}`
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"47.0.2526.106"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.