CVE-2016-4852
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5
Description
YoruFukurou (NightOwl) before 2.85 relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers even though this support is missing from the CoreText CTFramesetter API on OS X 10.9, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted emoji character sequence.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| macos | 10.9 | not-affected | |
| macos | 10.9.1 | not-affected | |
| macos | 10.9.2 | not-affected | |
| macos | 10.9.3 | not-affected | |
| macos | 10.9.4 | not-affected | |
| macos | 10.9.5 | not-affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| aki-null | yorufukurou | {"endIncluding":"2.84"} | |
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000151
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92609
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000151
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92609
CWEs
CWE-20
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.