ubuntu · CVE-2015-8947

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:06 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8947 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (harfbuzz), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 3, not-affected 2, DNE 1, ignored 1.

Description:

hb-ot-layout-gpos-table.hh in HarfBuzz before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2052.

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