Buffer Overflow Affecting fribidi/fribidi package, versions [1.0.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FRIBIDIFRIBIDI-2366488
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18397  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for fribidi/fribidi.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations. Examples include any GNOME or GTK+ based application that uses Pango for text layout, as this internally uses FriBidi for bidirectional text layout. For example, the attacker can construct a crafted text file to be opened in GEdit, or a crafted IRC message to be viewed in HexChat.

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