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CVE-2016-4852

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
12/09/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:aki-null:yorufukurou:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.84 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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