Out-of-bounds Write Affecting pango package, versions [1.42.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.25% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PANGO-2370344
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2019

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pango.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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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