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.
Published: 2016-09-12
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-5834 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.
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Aki-null Yorufukurou
Apple Mac Os X
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jpcert

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:46:38.432Z

Reserved: 2016-05-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-4852

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-09-12T10:59:01.210

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-4852

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