RHSA-2024:2980 — Security Advisory

An update for harfbuzz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

HarfBuzz is an implementation of the OpenType Layout engine.

Security Fix(es):

• harfbuzz: allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive marks (CVE-2023-25193)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.