CVE-2016-4852

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.7%

YoruFukurou (NightOwl) before 2.85 relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers even though this support is missing from the CoreText CTFramesetter API on OS X 10.9, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted emoji character sequence.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-09-12
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

aki-null:yorufukurou

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000151
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92609
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html

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