CVE-2016-1521

Name	CVE-2016-1521
Description	The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not validate a certain skip operation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted Graphite smart font.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3479-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
graphite2 (PTS)	buster	1.3.13-7	fixed
	bookworm, sid, bullseye	1.3.14-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
graphite2	source	wheezy	1.3.5-1~deb7u1	DSA-3479-1
graphite2	source	jessie	1.3.5-1~deb8u1	DSA-3479-1
graphite2	source	(unstable)	1.3.5-1

Notes

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0058/
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0061/
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/02/vulnerability-spotlight-libgraphite.html