CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. It affects Firefox. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2016-1521
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
4.06%
Firefox
Original NVD 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.