MGASA-2016-0077
Advisory lineage Upstream: 4 Downstream: 0
Published: 17 Feb 2016, 19:06
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:25
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100 CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
17 Feb 2016, 19:06
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:25
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
Updated graphite2/firefox packages fix security vulnerability Multiple vulnerabilities in the graphite2 font library can result in information disclosure, denial-of-service (application crashes), or code execution via out-of-bounds reads, a NULL pointer dereference, and a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526). Firefox includes a bundled copy of the graphite2 library, which has been updated in Firefox ESR 38.6.1.
Affected Systems
- mageia•firefox
< 38.6.1-1.mga5
- mageia•firefox-l10n
< 38.6.1-1.mga5
- mageia•graphite2
< 1.3.5-1.mga5
References (11)
- https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0077.html
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17780
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0057/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0059/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0060/
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-14/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3477