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CVE-2016-4852

YoruFukurou (NightOwl) before 2.85 relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers even though this support is missing from the CoreText CT…

Published 10 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
6.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.7%
percentile 78%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.74% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.06.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

  • jvn.jp /en/jp/JVN94816361/index.html · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVN, x_transferred
  • jvn.jp /en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • jvndb.jvn.jp /jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000151 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVNDB, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/92609 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

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