Out-of-Bounds Affecting pango-devel package, versions <0:1.42.4-5.el8_0


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PANGODEVEL-1380111
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Aug 2019

Introduced: 6 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-1010238  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 pango-devel to version 0:1.42.4-5.el8_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2582.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pango-devel package and not the pango-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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 Scores

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