Executive Summary

Summary
Title HarfBuzz vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3067-1 First vendor Publication 2016-08-24
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-08-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

HarfBuzz could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted data.

Software Description: - harfbuzz: OpenType text shaping engine

Details:

Kostya Serebryany discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause HarfBuzz to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-8947)

It was discovered that HarfBuzz incorrectly handled certain length checks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause HarfBuzz to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2052)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libharfbuzz0b 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libharfbuzz0b 0.9.27-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3067-1
CVE-2015-8947, CVE-2016-2052

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/harfbuzz/1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/harfbuzz/0.9.27-1ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3067-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3934
Application 1
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-09-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-01 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2315-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1821-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-76.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-25 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3067-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-986.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-28 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0072.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2877-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-08-26 13:26:07
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-24 17:21:25
  • First insertion