Out-of-bounds Write Affecting pango1.0 package, versions <1.42.4-7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PANGO10-456574
  • published4 Aug 2019
  • disclosed19 Jul 2019

Introduced: 19 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1010238  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable pango1.0 to version 1.42.4-7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pango1.0 package and not the pango1.0 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.

CVSS Base Scores

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