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CVE-2016-2052 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a den…

published 2016-01-25 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3157

cvss
7.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • harfbuzz Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2052

  • harfbuzz Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.12.5-0ubuntu1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1111
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2052

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 48.0.2564.82-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0072

  • libreoffice SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 5.3.5.2-43.5.4
  • libzmf SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 0.0.1-4.1
  • libmwaw SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 0.3.11-7.5.1
  • libixion SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 0.12.1-13.2.1
  • liborcus SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 0.12.1-10.5.1
  • libstaroffice SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 0.0.3-4.1
  • myspell-dictionaries SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 20170511-16.2.1
  • libreoffice SLED 12 SP2, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP2, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2 5.3.3.2-40.5.9

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2315-1SUSE-SU-2017:1821-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2052 updated cvss 5.1

chromium-browser: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 harfbuzz, harfbuzz-icu
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.82-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.82-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 48.0.2564.82-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0072

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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References

Sources

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