CVE-2016-1969

8.8 highEPSS 1.7%

High (8.8). EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The setAttr function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Graphite smart font.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2016-03-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox
sil:graphite2

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-38.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242322
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-38.html

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