CVE-2016-2052: google chrome
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-2052 is a high (CVSS 7.6) vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 4Timeline
- 25-01-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.6HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.6HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.96%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
61%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.96% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu3 products
- chromium-browser< 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1111 | < 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222
- harfbuzz< 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
- oxide-qt< 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 1.12.5-0ubuntu1
Debian1 product
- harfbuzz< 1.2.6-1
Google1 product
- chrome≤ 47.0.2526.106
Harfbuzz_project1 product
- harfbuzz≤ 1.0.5
4 vendors · 6 products
References
17 links- github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139X Refsource CONFIRM
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- github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5X Refsource CONFIRM
