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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-yrhc-hchg-7kf3 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2016-2796
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| Summary | Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek and Mozilla security engineer Tyson Smith reported a number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library affecting version 1.3.5. The issue reported by Holger Fuhrmannek is a mechanism to induce stack corruption with a malicious graphite font. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash when the font is loaded. Tyson Smith used the Address Sanitizer tool in concert with a custom software fuzzer to find a series of uninitialized memory, out-of-bounds read, and out-of-bounds write errors when working with fuzzed graphite fonts. To address these security vulnerabilities, Firefox 45 and Firefox ESR 38.7 have been updated to Graphite 2 version 1.3.6. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 9.0 |
| Risk | 4.5 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-2796.json | ||
| https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-2796 | ||
| 1315795 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315795 | |
| CVE-2016-2796 | https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2796 | |
| mfsa2016-37 | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-37 | |
| RHSA-2016:0373 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0373 | |
| RHSA-2016:0460 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0460 | |
| USN-2917-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/2917-1/ | |
| USN-2927-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/2927-1/ | |
| USN-2934-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/2934-1/ |
| Percentile | 0.70726 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00683 |
| Published At | July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m. |
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31T08:10:12.695951+00:00 | Mozilla Importer | Import | https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2016/mfsa2016-37.md | 37.0.0 |