CVE-2016-1522: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Code.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 consider recursive load calls during a size check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Graphite smart font.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Mozilla Firefox: version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only; version 38.1.1 only; version 38.2.0 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 38.5.1
• Sil GRAPHITE2: version 1.2.4 only

Published 2016-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.