CVE-2026-113680

Publication date 20 October 2026

Last updated 14 November 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

HarfBuzz from 8.0.0 through 14.6.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the experimental WebAssembly shaper host imports buffer_set_contents, face_create, and font_set_coords. Attackers can supply a crafted font whose embedded wasm module passes out-of-range addresses with non-zero lengths, crashing any application that shapes text with the font.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
harfbuzz 26.10 stonking
Not affected
26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


charlescochran

Per Debian and my research, Ubuntu's version of harfbuzz does not include the experimental WASM backend and is therefore not-affected.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:

Base score 6.8 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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